Re: Please test the latest installation images

Hi Talija,

On Mon, 2024-10-21 at 07:04 -0700, [email protected] wrote:
> When booting the 32 bit version, it only gets as far as "Loading..."
> after selecting the installer option, the disk reads for a few moments
> then stops, hangs, and crashes to the OpenFirmware with an illegal
> address error that went by very fast as it just kept saying "Ok" over
> and over again.

Interesting, I have never seen that. Thanks for the data point.

> I can probably test on an actual 32 bit machine tonight if it will boot on
> an old world G3.  I did verify the SHA sums and the disks validated successfully
> when burned.

OK, thanks. Would be good to know this result as well.

I will build some test images with older kernel and GRUB versions in order
to track down what particular change introduced the problem.

> Thanks for all the work you put into this, it's much appreciated.

You're very welcome. I also appreciate the help that the PowerPC community provides
with testing the software and help finding and reporting upstream bugs.

Adrian

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