Lubuntu 14 && U-MATE 15 installer issues [PPC]

[Fritz Hudnut]

@wxl:

Thanks for the reply . . . indeed, the discussion I saw, couple talking
heads . . . has nothing to do with this problem . . . but then I didn't
hear them say "Snappy" either . . . but I only gave them about 5 minutes to
access the focus of their effort.

@Peter:

Thanks also for your thoughts . . . however, past efforts to "boot open
firmware" to try to boot a USB flash edition based upon the PowerPCFAQ
instructions were ***not successful**** for my '04 era iBook G4 . . . well,
I was able to boot into open firmware . . . but none of the supplied
options on the FAQ did anything . . . and that included something like
"//yaboot"???? that was trying to boot the yaboot file in the USB flash . .
. .  Point being, that I would need detailed directions on how to try that
. . . and possibly that machine would not comply.

In terms of the "boot with c key" to boot the cdrom, right, that should
have worked, but didn't . . . it went to the Yaboot window, and then
selecting "c" for cdrom . . . brought some error . . . might have then been
able to hit "return" and then tried "L" . . . leading to the frozen
dmesg??? list, OR I can reboot into OSX . . . .

My thought is to again try to boot the linux install disk and try to run
the install again and see if it "recognizes" anything as "installed" . . .
and then tries to repair . . . .  To the best of my knowledge Yaboot
doesn't have a "recovery" mode like GRUB does . . . .  Or . . . if that
fails . . . "nuke and pave" . . . once again.

One way or another, it isn't per se the install that is the issue, I got
the system installed . . . and could probably do it again.  It's just the
fact that using my usual "manual" partition method did not work . . . and
possibly this may relate to some of these recent "installer" issues????

F

On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 1:11 PM, Peter Golis <golisp at centrum.sk> wrote:

> Hello Fritz,
> you can start open firmware and start yaboot from that small disk formated
> by UFS which is called new world boot.
>
> Alternatively you can insert LiveCD for PowerPC and startup that computer
> to boot from cdrom. There shall be enough to press/hold key "c" to tell OFI
> to boot from cdrom. Rest can be done using chroot.
>
>
> Fritz Hudnut <este.el.paz at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Folks:
>
> Just a little follow-up on the installer issue(s) . . . tried to watch the
> recent Hangouts on the installer on the world Ubuntu meeting, but didn't
> seem to be on point and at that time I hadn't tried to run an install.
> Over the weekend I tried to install two flavors from desktop image burned
> to DVD on my iBook G4 . . . first it was Lubuntu 14.04 LTS that I had
> burned and I believe I installed and from memory downloaded in February.
>
> I followed my usual style of selecting "something else" from the choice as
> I run a dual boot, set up a 10 MB "new world boot" partition, 12 GB
> formatted "ext4"  . . . and 2x RAM at 1380MB for swap . . . ran through the
> usual ID & password stuff . . . and the installer opened and started with
> "saving files xxx" . . . .  15 minutes later it was "still doing that"
> which ordinarily the install should be finishing or almost.  Checked
> GParted, boot partition showed 9MB installed, and ext4 showed 322MB . . .
> ????  Deleted the partitions and tried again . . . same thing . . . .  So I
> assumed that somehow the Lubuntu installer issues that have been discussed
> here had "migrated" into my burned DVD by magic . . . so I went on to try
> for a Ubuntu-MATE 15 iso . . . many downloads later I had a correct
> checksum number and burned it to DVD.
>
> The next day, yesterday I went for the install, this time I noticed that
> when I set up the Newworld boot it was flagged as "/" . . . and I also
> flagged the ext4 partition as "/" as I usual do for prior successful
> installs . . . running the install brought the same "saving copies" . . .
> with the same 9MB in newworld and 322MB showing as "used" . . . sensing a
> pattern I tried to delete the newworld partition, but, it would not run w/o
> it.  Then I tried to remove the "/" from the neworld, also not accepted . .
> . same thing when I tried to remove the "/" from the ext 4 partition.
>
> So, I gave up on trying to use "something else" and I deleted all the
> partitions to "free space" and ran it as "install alongside OSX" . . . and
> it went through, Yaboot was installed . . . .  However, on reboot it went
> to a black screen, my radeon boot params were not carried over to the
> install . . . so I tried to set up an Xorg.conf and at same time add the
> boot params to the Yaboot.conf file . . . and botched the deal by
> forgetting (I believe) to run "sudo ybin" . . . and on reboot it went to
> the verbose log . . . ending with "p link is down" and it froze there.
>
> I tried to boot a Super Grub2 CD but Yaboot would not boot it . . . so,
> problems with install, work around that "fixed it," and then I screwed it
> up . . . seems par for the course for the iBook lately . . . .
>
> Clearly there are "issues" with the "something else" way of installing
> with possibly the double flag for "/" being involved?  If there is a bug
> report for this issue, happy to add my name to it.  Might have time in a
> few days to try to run the installer over my install and see if it "dpkg"
> the problem . . . ah, I also tried to get to a TTY after my Xorg & Yaboot
> conf fiasco . . . no dice would not open a TTY shell . . . .
>
> F/e.e.p.
>
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