PowerBook G4 - Installation works fine, but boots to "Unable to open an initial console" followed by a kernel panic about archpower

[kth5]

I think you may want to install systemd-sysvcompat as here it may not be able to start init from what it looks like.

Alternatively you can provide init=/usr/lib/systemd/systemd on the kernel cmdline during boot.

[DistroHopper39B]

I think you may want to install systemd-sysvcompat as here it may not be able to start init from what it looks like.

Alternatively you can provide init=/usr/lib/systemd/systemd on the kernel cmdline during boot.

That package is already installed, and the second command you tried doesn't work.

[kth5]

Alternatively, I can see you are using linux-g4. Would it be possible to compare to linux which isn't optimized for G4 but packaged more recently?

[DistroHopper39B]

Alternatively, I can see you are using linux-g4. Would it be possible to compare to linux which isn't optimized for G4 but packaged more recently?

Still... doesn't work. I also tried reinstalling systemd with no luck.

[kth5]

That is indeed an odd issue. The install ISO boots and lets you install while you can't boot from the installed system eve though it already loaded the kernel (Grub installed OK etc).

Things to check:

• arch-chroot from the booted ISO and mkinitcpio -p linux does produce errors? I.e. problem in initramfs.
• what filesystem do you use that holds /boot?

[DistroHopper39B]

Here is my /etc/fstab because that might be causing problems:

• returns no errors (besides missing firmware on fallback kernel) but those are warnings anyway
• ext4 (/boot/grub is hfs)

Also, I've had none of these issues on debian powerpc (which has almost no software support) or adelie linux

[DistroHopper39B]

Here is my /etc/fstab because that might be causing problems:

• returns no errors (besides missing firmware on fallback kernel) but those are warnings anyway
• ext4 (/boot/grub is hfs)

Also, I've had none of these issues on debian powerpc (which has almost no software support) or adelie linux

I am going to try deleting one of the entries for / in fstab. Maybe that would work?
Edit: it didn't. I am going to sign off for now, thanks for all your help!

[kth5]

Fix will come with linux 5.16.10.arch1-2 (linux-g4 a little later). dev filesystem wasn't automounted by kernel which is expected when using genfstab.

[kth5]

Tested on a macmini G4 and two powerbooks. Closing.