Hi, now when I know how exactly how the ST-RAM swap fails I can play with the recently corrected "stram_swap" kernel option to make it working the way I want. Example: I want to boot with video=atafb:vga16 (16-colors VGA resolution) but without ST-RAM swap this fails (a bug in kernel) while with ST-RAM swap it crashes (another bug in kernel). However, by adding the following parameter stram_swap=1,400 I ask the kernel to allocate just 400 kB of ST-RAM as swap space. That is large enough block for the vga16 videoram (needs about 300 kB) but at the same time it's small enough to fit between the kernel and the initrd in the 4 MB of ST-RAM so it doesn't overwrite the ramdisk and thus the boot doesn't fail.
The result of this trial is that I passed the moment where the d-i on kernel 2.4 freezed (and turned the font color from white to red). Now I am at the following stage: bogl: don't know screen type 2 I remember I faced the same problem with Woody installation but there the mysterious "nolangchooser" kernel option helped. No idea what to pass into Sarge's install. Neither an idea why this bogl returns again and again. What is screen type 2 and why bogl doesn't like it? Also note that I hope to get the above mentioned kernel bugs fixed sometime soon but before that happens you can play with the swap space (if the debian m68k kernel accepts the stram_swap option patch) to get the installer working. Petr
