Re: OldWorld ROM Macintoshes

What I have encountered in recent Debian systems is a library that 
prevents X to work and leave you with a black screen.

What I always do is, boot into recovery mode and issue:

mv /usr/lib/xorg/modules/libglamoregl.so 
/usr/lib/xorg/modules/libglamoregl.so.bak

Then resume booting. It might work in your case too.

Regards,
Jeroen



Stan Johnson schreef op 2025-09-03 14:34:
> On 9/2/25 10:26 PM, Cedar Maxwell wrote:
>> Kernel 6.16 causes a black screen.  No response to CTRL + ALT + F1, 
>> F2,
>> etc.
>> 
>> Please advise in troubleshooting.
>> ...
> 
> 
> I don't think you can necessarily conclude that the kernel is causing
> a black screen without more information. On your Wallstreet, did you
> replace Debian's 6.1.0-9 kernel that you mentioned earlier with 6.16,
> or did you upgrade all Debian packages ("apt-get dist-upgrade")?
> 
> If you ran a full "apt-get dist-upgrade" then there may some other
> issue causing the black screen. Do you see boot messages as the kernel
> starts to boot? Does the screen go blank at about the time a window
> manager starts? If you disable X11 by not running a window manager (I
> think Debian uses lightdm by default for Xfce), do you get a login
> prompt? Are you able to access the system over the network (ssh or
> telnet) or via a serial port? If yes, does /var/log/Xorg.0.log contain
> any useful information?
> 
> 
>> On Tue, 2025-09-02 at 20:31 -0500, Cedar Maxwell wrote:
>>> Good news gentlemen.
>>> 
>>> Last time on OldWorld adventures: I attempted to install several
>>> versions of Debian but each attempt rendered the OS 9 install
>>> unbootable both in QEMU and on the WallStreet.
>>> 
>>> However, the unbootability on the WallStreet appears to have been
>>> caused solely by my shoddy mSATA to IDE adapter.  Although the
>>> installation didn't boot on QEMU, I tried another adapter (still
>>> JM20330 based) and it booted up.  Note to QEMU maintainers perhaps
>>> lurking on this mailing list: Is this the intended behavior?
>>> 
>>> I attempted to boot into Debian 6.1.0-9 using an image from 2023-05-
>>> 08.
>>> Mission success!  I don't know yet if this because of an older kernel
>>> version, or because I omitted the GRUB partition, but I intend to
>>> test
>>> updating the kernel and reporting back. ...