MintPPC project

[MoerBoer]

hfsutils installed fine on it's own

Suppse yaboot is not in that repository

 

[Jeroen Diederen]

correct, yaboot is not in Debian-ports apparently.

 

[MoerBoer]

Just saw something interesting when I booted up again. Not sure if it's related why the initial setup of yaboot failed.

 

[Jeroen Diederen]

not important

 

[MoerBoer]

I still think it's something to do with the way the partitions must be set up. Might be good to give a step by step on the instructions for people not familiar with partitioning

 

[Jeroen Diederen]

You don't get it to work ? Your partitions look good.

 

[MoerBoer]

Nope, still not booting, because I can't apt get yaboot as per your suggestion

 

[Jeroen Diederen]

you can also manually download yaboot, wait a minute...I'll check
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in the chrooted environment:

cd /tmp
wget http://www.u58733p55594.web0093.zxcs-klant.nl/repo/pool/yaboot_1.3.17-4+ports1_powerpc.deb
dpkg -i yaboot_1.3.17-4+ports1_powerpc.deb

 

[MoerBoer]

Aha, I think this shows the underlying problem. It seems we need a 64bit yaboot package for G5 systems?

 

[Jeroen Diederen]

Aha, yes...I didn't know this. Never tried it on G5 before. I will have a look for a 64-bits version, hang on...
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Try this address to fetch yaboot...same command wget as before:

http://ftp.ports.debian.org/debian-ports/pool-ppc64/main/y/yaboot/yaboot_1.3.17-4+ports1_ppc64.deb

 

[Jeroen Diederen]

Now I also understand why the yaboot-installer didn't work...

 

[MoerBoer]

Ok, I did that. Then also did the apt get for hfsutils.

Followed the previous steps and rebooted. This time I didn't get the no OS icon ( Progress! ). However when it started to boot, I got the following:

 

[Jeroen Diederen]

It looks like you have the wrong kernel, maybe a 32-bits kernel instead of a 64-bits ? Maybe you also need 64-bits hfsutils ?
again, with wget and dpkg -i:

http://ftp.ports.debian.org/debian-ports/pool-ppc64/main/h/hfsutils/hfsutils_3.2.6-14_ppc64.deb

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You might have other problems when you finally enter your system. All my packages in my repository are 32-bits. I never built these packages in a 64-bits environment.

 

[MoerBoer]

No, that didn't help. I did install the 64-bit hfsutils and also redid the yaboot steps just to be sure, but it's still giving the same error.

 

[Jeroen Diederen]

oops, I guess I have to try myself on a G5. Leave it like it is. I will help you further when I know the problem.
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If you still like to try to fiddle around you might want to copy vmlinux that is on the installer medium in the /install folder to /dev/sda3/boot and try to reboot...only if you like fiddling...
EDIT sda3

 

[sparty411]

I’m under the impression that Debian Sid 64 bit is still utterly broken. I did 2 clean installs last night, and after installing the latest kernel, and a DE, it kernel panics while booting.

 

[Jeroen Diederen]

I also get this impression...btw, what is DE

 

[sparty411]

I also get this impression...btw, what is DE

Oh, desktop environment lol.

 

[Jeroen Diederen]

In the past, Debian was installed with 32-bits packages on G5.

 

[sparty411]

In the past, Debian was installed with 32-bits packages on G5.

How does one get a 32 bit user land while using a 64 bit kernel?

 

[MoerBoer]

Sigh, just my luck. MorphOS doesn't work on iMac G5's, seems no Linux is working ( have tried SID and VoidLinux ), and now Mint also seems difficult.

 

[Jeroen Diederen]

If Debian sid 64-bits can't be installed, MintPPC 64-bits won't either.
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[sparty411]

Sigh, just my luck. MorphOS doesn't work on iMac G5's, seems no Linux is working ( have tried SID and VoidLinux ), and now Mint also seems difficult.

Ubuntu 16.04 should work. Void doesn’t work either?

 

[Jeroen Diederen]

I will play around on my G5 when I have the time. I will post my findings in this thread.
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Fienix is for 64bits...

Fienix

fienixppc.blogspot.com

 

[Appleuser201]

Using Grease Monkey, vlc browser plug-in and viewtube script is the best way to watch youtube on ppc linux on low end machines. The script even allows for downloading videos to watch in an external player if need be. Just follow these instructions (with links). On my G4 i set it to use SD low quality mp4 for 360p.

Arctic Fox - Page 11 - Hyperion Entertainment Message Boards

Edit: No need for the non-altivec VLC or non-altivec plugin in step 1, thats just for amiga machines or g3's. Just use debian/ubuntu standard packages.

Cheers

Arctic Fox on Linux and OS X is based on FireFox 63?