It is very much the problem i will be trying to fix when https://github.com/threader/AltanOS/tree/main/src/ppc/linux_ppc32_deb is in order, it'll take some time to work out everything and clean up all and build from a buildroot or debian build. I'm going to visit the debian-installer soon anyway, it's a matter of planning and execution, im having enough fun toying with thoughts atm, but these problems with booting ppc etc. have been on my mind since i heard about grun for ppc. I see i compiled 'kexecboot' https://github.com/kexecboot/kexecboot but i must have forgotten to upload it or something, i need to verify my XNU stuff before i do much more really.
On Sun, 22 Sept 2024, 09:27 Mike, <[email protected]> wrote: > What about installing from a qemu or debbootstrap from a usb/chroot and do > some OF trickery? > > On Sun, 22 Sept 2024, 06:28 Ken Cunningham, < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> So the key points are: >> >> 1. you have to use the special ISO, and no other ISO than the latest >> special ISO should be used. Right now, I think you're still waiting to hear >> which ISO that is. >> 2. Do NOT believe any other website you might find or YouTube channel you >> might find that claims to tell you how to install debian on PPC. I have not >> yet seen a single one of them that has accurate information on it. >> 3. use GRUB. Use all the default settings during the ISO installation. >> Forget about triple booting into nine different operating systems. Give >> debian the whole disk. >> 4. the latest kernel is broken. Don't use it. You have to use the >> previous working kernel instead, and not upgrade the kernel until the issue >> gets sorted out. >> 5. you have to manually install the firmware needed to support the >> hardware. It's not installed by default as it is not free, so debian won't >> bundle it. >> 6. use a plugged-in ethernet connection. WIFI works, eventually, after a >> lot of screwing around, but don't bother with it off the start. >> 7. getting from the terminal display (text screen) to a whole GUI >> graphical interface takes a while. There will be blood. Not all video cards >> will work right. You will be sure you have set everything up right, but it >> just won't work. And then you will discover some setting that wasn't right, >> and it will finally work. And then you should never touch it again :> . >> 8. be careful with large updates / upgrades. You can quite easily get >> yourself into a situation where you have broken everything, and will see no >> good path back to a working state. >> >> >> Ken >> >> >> >> >> On Sep 21, 2024, at 7:54 PM, Cedar Maxwell <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hello Adrian, >> >> >> Yes, I tried booting into the older kernel from GRUB. In fact, >> attempting to load the latest kernel from the repositories causes the >> system to crash back to Open Firmware, as discussed previously. >> >> >> However, you mentioned that all further discussion should be based on a >> known working image. Does the image I used fit this description? >> On 9/20/24 01:06, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: >> >> I went ahead and tried this one: >> https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/current/ >> >> -- >> Sincerely, >> Cedar Maxwell >> >> >>
