Hi,
I mainly focus on 'ppc64el' on which Debian 11 installs well.
I'm pretty sure I've not tried Debian 11 on 'ppc64' (i.e. be) with qemu.
Even less on 'powerpc' (i.e. 32b).
Now I know that powerpc has a different bootloader installation process
compared to ppc64* in Debian, but it's converging recently at the Debian
installer level.

Could you guys send details to debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org so that
me or others (more 'powerpc' and 'ppc64' dev/users) can have a look ?

F.


On Tue, 18 Jan 2022 10:12:46 +0100 Cédric Le Goater <clg@kaod.org> wrote:
> [ Adding Fred ]
> 
> On 1/18/22 09:30, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote:
> > On 17/01/2022 14:52, Cédric Le Goater wrote:
> > 
> >> Initially, I installed a debian11 ppc64 on a QEMU mac99/970 machine.
> >> Something went wrong with the bootloader at installation and I was
> >> stuck with memory boot. I didn't manage to restore a decent boot
> >> setup even after that.
> > 
> > Interesting. I had a similar issue using the debian ports images on mac99/ppc32: everything went well all up until the bootloader installation which failed. When I looked at the installer logs IIRC there was a kernel panic somewhere in the hfs module which I figured is likely an emulation bug somewhere.
> 
> Is that a known issue ? I guess these install configs are not often
> tested.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> C.
> 
>