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Shiunbird

macrumors newbie
Original poster
Nov 20, 2020
22
12
Hello everyone,

Did anyone have any success installing T2SDE Linux on PowerPC? The installation goes buttersmooth, but I always get stuck at the grub shell, no matter how I get around partitioning (tried /boot in separate ext2 partitition, tried GPT and APM). I don't even get the menu with the menu option defined in grub.cfg during installation.

I am on a late 2005 G5.
 

saxfun

macrumors regular
Mar 14, 2016
138
24
Germany
Hello everyone,

Did anyone have any success installing T2SDE Linux on PowerPC? The installation goes buttersmooth, but I always get stuck at the grub shell, no matter how I get around partitioning (tried /boot in separate ext2 partitition, tried GPT and APM). I don't even get the menu with the menu option defined in grub.cfg during installation.

I am on a late 2005 G5.

i had the same problems. I tried it many times to install T2 SDE 24.5 only to recognize that you

1. cannot make a hfs filesystem (must do it before installation with OSX install media for instance), make.hfs is missing.
2. T2 SDE cannot mount a hfs filesystem read/write, only ro.
3. T2 SDE cannot write anything to the boot partition (normally /dev/sda2)

Maybe some linux wizard can enlighten us with some help.

it's a pity that in June 2024 almost all ppc linux derives would not install on our beloved ppc machines.

1. debian 12: broken dependencies and broken grub
2. T2 SDE: unable to boot after installation
3. debian 11: cannot finish install
4. debian 10: no mirror anymore, cannot install anything
5. Adelie works on my iBook after endless tries. don't DL the usual PPC iso, just DL the adelie-inst-ppc-1.0-beta5-20240426 with size 488,3MB. but Adelie has a small repository. package manager is fast.
6. void linux: i had it once installed, years ago, it was fast, easy and reliable, but support ended AFAIK in 2023.

last warning. DON'T try to install t2-23.12-ppc-minimal-firefox-gcc-glibc-603 !!!! it bricked one iboob and one powerbook, I suspect the installer to inject some code into OpenFirmware. both devices were unbootable! after hours of research I found the following hint:


and rescued both ppc machines!

I would love to continue some kind of exchange about the possibilities of linux in June 2024 for us!
 

Shiunbird

macrumors newbie
Original poster
Nov 20, 2020
22
12
I spent some time on this yesterday and today, failing miserably.

Even the known media I have for void ppc and adelie I failed to install - perhaps my memory is failing. It was easier to get my C8000 up and running!

I am trying to get Debian 10 up with functional grub, then will try to get t2sde on top of it, by mounting /boot/grub and /boot separately. Let's see.
 

saxfun

macrumors regular
Mar 14, 2016
138
24
Germany
I spent some time on this yesterday and today, failing miserably.

Even the known media I have for void ppc and adelie I failed to install - perhaps my memory is failing. It was easier to get my C8000 up and running!

I am trying to get Debian 10 up with functional grub, then will try to get t2sde on top of it, by mounting /boot/grub and /boot separately. Let's see.
Try my recommended Adelie image, the you‘ll succeed!
 

Shiunbird

macrumors newbie
Original poster
Nov 20, 2020
22
12
Did you try loading t2sde on top of a working bootable environment created by the adelie installer?
 

saxfun

macrumors regular
Mar 14, 2016
138
24
Germany
No, I tried to install from scratch but did the partitioning and formatting from OSX 10.5 installer disk or diff. Linux install disk cause T2 SDE does not support hfs.
 
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