#footimac

The iMac did not see the USB stick, but I am not convinced the stick is actually a valid bootable install as I was building it using dd on a new machine. I will bring it to work and use target disk mode to try to get things moved onto an old iMac there as an interim. #footiMac

getting some help from a big brother (with a same FireWire port) the good news is the linux volume is viewable in disk utility so once I install an ext2/3 driver i should be able to get critical files off. First though i want to try to get a bootable macos install going to allow it to boot itself fully so i can redo rEFInd #footiMac

it is easy to forget how spoiled we are by the sheer speed of everything compared to 15-20 years ago. loading that El Capitan install took a bit from USB but it got there. Now... it's time to do some work while the install happens. Not 100% sure #footiMac will see the boot volume but we're giving it a go! I also probably have an old install DVD around!

Welp... the install on USB stick worked as far as being successful and booting on the big brother iMac. But no go seeing the USB on l#footiMac so we’re still stuck. Next will be to get the critical files off the linux volume.

oh yes! we have access to the #footiMac linux volume through big brother, refind, and a debian install rescue image

Feeling like I am so close… #footiMac

YES! #footiMac is alive again! Installing onto a USB stick hopefully so that I can then boot into it and manage the boot loader again! that was... hard... dealing with EFI and GRUB issues aint fun.

boot loader activated! I think we are in business. I can take #footiMac back home now and hopefully @chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca will be online again tonight. And most importantly @alberniweather@socialbc.ca and @AlberniweatherBot@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca will be getting live data again! Phew! That was a tough nut to crack. #footiMac

@EdwinG@mstdn.moimeme.ca complete and successful at 14:40. So that's 35 minutes on old #footiMac

I said I wasn't going to fiddle around with my #selfhost #footiMac #newOldiMac anymore... well. that didn't last. lol #mastoAdmin #qemu #colima #cantHelpMyself

“what are you trying to do now?” you might be asking. Colima on macOS Ventura and later uses the Apple-supplied 'vz’ engine. #newOldiMac is running Ventura. So maybe docker was interacting poorly with that engine, especially because it was the first macOS version with it… maybe it's buggy? So I'm installing ‘qemu', which is the native colima engine on all pre-Ventura Macs and Linux. building it is taking a bit… #selfhost #footiMac #newOldiMac #mastoAdmin #qemu #colima #cantHelpMyself

it always takes so much longer than you want…. lol zzzzz #newOldiMac #selfhost #footiMac #newOldiMac #mastoAdmin #qemu #colima #cantHelpMyself