Re: Updated installation images for Debian Ports (2025-03-16)

On 21/03/2025 22:20, Mathias Parnaudeau wrote:
> Hi Adrian
>
> On 18/03/2025 14:50, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I have build updated installation images for Debian Ports.
>>
>> If you run into any issue or have question, please let me know.
>
> To start, I chose to test this new image (thanks for this update) on 
> MacMini G4. On this machine, it used to work but this time, I have a 
> fatal error: grub fails to be installed. It mentions "grub-install 
> /dev/sda3" and the more detailed error "filesystem on /boot/grub is 
> neither HFS nor HFS+".
>
> When I created partitions with the easiest way using the whole disk, I 
> had a 256 MB hfs partition (/dev/sda2) and a 58.7 GB ext4 partition 
> (/dev/sda3). But I can't see this hfs partition and grub-install tries 
> to use my root partition ...
>
> I used an USB stick to perform the installation.

I tested the installation on this machine with image 2024-12-24 and 
after the partitioning, in another console, mount shows the hfs 
partition, what is not the case with image 2025-03-16.


To continue testing 32-bit machines, I tried to install the latest image 
on PowerBook G4 and after have chosen the default install, it is stuck at:

Quiescing Open Firmware ...
Booting Linux via __start() @ 0x20c00000

I obtain exactly the same result with QEMU that I tried to install with 
the followind command line (not sure of it, but it is hard to find a 
procedure for recent Debian versions, for example):

/usr/bin/qemu-system-ppc -L pc-bios -boot d -M mac99,via=pmu -m 1024 
-hda debian-12.qcow2 -cdrom 
/home/mathias/Téléchargements/20250316-debian-12.0.0-powerpc-NETINST-1.iso


Still on this PowerBook G4, the image 2024-12-24 stops at the same place.


Mathias