Re: Installing on PowerBook G4 - grub failure

Hi Steffen,

On Mon, 2024-09-23 at 12:13 +0200, Steffen Grunewald wrote:
> I'm sorry I've got to chime in, but I'm currently lost trying to install
> Debian on a resuscitated PowerBook G4 - which got a new disk during the
> process (M.2 128 GB "disk" in M.2-to-44-pin-IDE adapter) as the old one
> must have been broken and removed...
> 
> I've started from CD, the image advertises itself as
> 
>  11.0.0 "Sid" Unofficial powerpc NETINST 20211006-11:28
> 
> and the install process proceeds nicely - until grub needs to be installed.
> The guided setup created /dev/sda2 for /boot/grub (but didn't mount it into
> /target!), /dev/sda3 for /, etc.

That image is quite old. Please use the following one:

> https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/snapshots/2023-06-18/debian-12.0.0-powerpc-NETINST-1.iso

I should probably mark the old images as deprecated as a lot of users seem to
be using them only to realize they don't work.

Adrian


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