On Jun 13 2017, Tony Jones wrote:

So sorry I can't be of any help but I'm curious if anyone has any suggestions to get the installer to progress further.

Try using textmode install. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, schwab@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different." -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-ppc+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-ppc+owner@opensuse.org

On Jun 13 2017, Tony Jones wrote:

I tried textmode=1 appended to cmdline, made no difference either.

Perhaps you also need to block loading any framebuffer modules. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, schwab@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different." -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-ppc+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-ppc+owner@opensuse.org

On Jun 13 2017, Tony Jones wrote:

I'm editing in grub2 as per this: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4f6QpD8ItHyRTVuTG9CUGRfWGc/view

There is no vesafb on PowerMac.

It's definitely trying to do something graphics related as the screen blanks and flickers but then as I said the power saver kicks in.

Have you tried booting the kernel in your sles11 installation? Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, schwab@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different." -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-ppc+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-ppc+owner@opensuse.org

On Tue, Jun 13, 2017 at 4:06 PM, Tony Jones wrote:

I also have a G5. 4 core. PPC970MP @2.5ghz with GeForce 6600. I just now tried to install latest Tumbleweed, it's been several years since I last tried to mess with openSUSE on ppc64.

I get as far as udev starting, it seems to try to perform a modeset and locks up (at least vcons switching doen't work) and monitor goes into power save. I tried forcing nomodeset in linuxrc but no difference. Same if I try recovery vs installation.

The graphics card has always been an issue with openSUSE/ppc64 but has always worked fine in SLES (I just booted SLE11SP4 to get above hwinfo). Obviously I can't install anything newer in terms of SLES.

So sorry I can't be of any help but I'm curious if anyone has any suggestions to get the installer to progress further.

Last time I tried I think I could get the installer to come up. I also THINK I have a radeon in mine. I won't be able to check till the weekend. It's ended up on the back burner for me. Just haven't had the time. It's a shame it just sits there since it's a pretty powerful machine even though it's about 14 years old. I could use OS X Leopard and TenFourFox, but I'd rather not use such an out of date OS on-line. I have a workpad Z50 that has WinCE v2.11 but I don't use it on-line unless I boot into NetBSD on it. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-ppc+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-ppc+owner@opensuse.org

Also, what bs=1X setting are you using to dd the .iso? JMH

On Jun 14, 2017, at 11:27 PM, Jonathan Haack wrote:

How are you booting the installer? CD/DVD or on a flash drive via open firmware?

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On Apr 21, 2017, at 6:53 PM, Larry Stotler wrote:

Is anyone using openSUSE on a Powermac G5? I have an original 2003 Dual 2.0Ghz with 8GB RAM.

I haven't had any luck getting it to install, but I haven't had the time to look into it.

Any tips would be appreciated.

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On Thu, Jun 15, 2017 at 1:32 AM, Jonathan Haack wrote:

Also, what bs=1X setting are you using to dd the .iso?

JMH

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On Jun 14, 2017, at 11:27 PM, Jonathan Haack wrote:

How are you booting the installer? CD/DVD or on a flash drive via open firmware?

oemb1905

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On Apr 21, 2017, at 6:53 PM, Larry Stotler wrote:

Is anyone using openSUSE on a Powermac G5? I have an original 2003 Dual 2.0Ghz with 8GB RAM.

I haven't had any luck getting it to install, but I haven't had the time to look into it.

Any tips would be appreciated.

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On Sat, Jul 15, 2017 at 8:57 AM, Larry Stotler wrote:

On Thu, Jun 15, 2017 at 1:32 AM, Jonathan Haack wrote:

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Also, what bs=1X setting are you using to dd the .iso?

I recently used K3b under TDE(Trinity Desktop) on my Thinkpad using 13.2

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On Jun 14, 2017, at 11:27 PM, Jonathan Haack wrote:

How are you booting the installer? CD/DVD or on a flash drive via open firmware?

I recently booted one of the newest iso files(May I think?) on my G5 with the onboard DVD. I did not do the install tho. Haven't had time. My G5 has 8GB DDR400.

I booted a openSuSE tumbleweed DVD from the day before yesterday. I ran into the problem I have addressed by the kernel patch cross-posted to this list: the CONFIG_WINDFARM_PM72 is not set in the config for the installer kernel, so the fan controller first sound like an airplane and then shuts down the system. I hope either this can be fixed in the default kernel config or that my kernel patch gets applied so it is fixed for everyone. I previously have Debian Jessie installed on this machine, which works but Debian has dropped support for PPC and it is not getting graphics though all text consoles come up fine. Apart from that kernel v4.12 works fine. I was meaning to troubleshoot the graphics problem by getting an up-to-date system with openSuSE when I ran into the above. Yours, Linus Walleij -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-ppc+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-ppc+owner@opensuse.org

On Thu, Jun 15, 2017 at 1:27 AM, Jonathan Haack wrote:

How are you booting the installer? CD/DVD or on a flash drive via open firmware?

onboard DVD. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-ppc+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-ppc+owner@opensuse.org