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| From | Michal Krzysztof Feiler <archiet@platinum.edu.pl> |
| Newsgroups | comp.os.linux.powerpc |
| Subject | Cannot boot Debian Testing netinst on a PowerMac G5, vertical blue stripes |
| Date | Mon, 9 Jan 2017 02:10:28 +0000 (UTC) |
| Organization | ICM, Uniwersytet Warszawski |
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| Summary | Inserting CD, pressing C, normal gray screen then black with vertical blue stripes |
| Keywords | powermac g5 debian testing blue stripes black screen netinst |
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Hello, I am currently trying to install GNU/Linux on my PowerMac G5 alongside macOS 10.5.8. tl;dr: this whole paragraph is solely about Fedora, skip to the next one --- I've been trying Fedora25, but the graphical installer requires more RAM (I have just 1GB, though waiting for the delivery of 4GB for upgrade), and the text-only installer first crashed on something related to the macOS HDD (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1368932), and after unplugging it it had some problems with the mirrors, as neither the "Closest mirror" nor "https://"→"https://archive.fedoraproject.org/ pub/fedora-secondary/releases/25/Everything/ppc64/os/" (nor "http://" → "", that one causes https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1368932) worked (the following option regarding the software choice still could not proceed). So I've decided to try Debian. I've downloaded http://gemmei.acc.umu.se/cdimage/weekly-builds/powerpc/iso-cd/ debian-testing-powerpc-netinst.iso to my PowerMac, checked the checksum, burned it with Disk Utility (with verification) and booted it up by pressing C during boot, as usual. After the usual gray screen, the screen that followed was a black screen with iirc one-pixel blue strips equally spaced every one to four millimeters (1280×1024 19"). As the G5s, when their cooling is not controlled by software, speed up to maximum after some timeout, and then the unit turns off after some more, this is what follows (the same would happen with a working Fedora install if I would not run `modprobe i2c-powermac` and possibly also `modprobe rack-meter` soon enough). Any ideas? Cheers, Michael P.S. BTW, that's my first message on Usenet ;) P.P.S. I doubt that it will help, but I will also try stable 8.6.0, exactly as described in what I am trying to follow: https://github.com/masterzorag/G5_ppc64-linux -- Michał Krzysztof Feiler archiet.platinum.edu.pl google.com/+MichałKrzysztofFeiler github.com/ArchieT
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Cannot boot Debian Testing netinst on a PowerMac G5, vertical blue stripes Michal Krzysztof Feiler <archiet@platinum.edu.pl> - 2017-01-09 02:10 +0000 Re: Cannot boot Debian Testing netinst on a PowerMac G5, vertical blue stripes ANTant@zimage.com (Ant) - 2017-01-09 10:55 -0600
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