I'm trying to install debian sid on a powermac G5. Some days an installation try went straight forward, letting me installing the base system and then proceed with the rest from command line
now i have to reinstall it and i'm not able to get it anymore
i downloaded the ppc64 installer from here (the ppc flavor failed to boot) from here
http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/current/
it boots correctly
i proceeded with following steps:
- installed OSX Leopard and partitioned sda with sda1, sda2, sda3 (Leopard partitions) and an unused sda4 partition
- booted the debian installer and deleted the sda4 partition
- rebooted the debian installer and proceeded with guided partition on empty space of sda
- the partitions created by guided partitioning are sdb4 (Hfs, /boot/grub) sda5 (ext4, /) sd5 (swap)
- i proceeded with a minimal installation since i cannot connect to a mirror
- the installation went straight till the bootloader installation wich fails
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$ chroot /target
$ mount -t hfs /dev/sda4 /boot/grub
$ mount -t sysfs none sys
$ grub-install /dev/sda4
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sda4 is not a PReP partition
if some of you can help i'll be grateful
if some of you can suggest a correct url for a mirror to use i'll be grateful also