On Fri, Dec 10, 2004 at 08:56:50PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > On Fri, Dec 10, 2004 at 08:14:42PM +0100, Ralf Schlatterbeck wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 10, 2004 at 07:16:58PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > > > > > > What graphic card do you have on this box ? > > The built-in graphics. No extra card. > > Ok, do you know what graphic chips is used in it, and what driver is used on > it? more /proc/fb on the second console should give you that info. On 2.4 (which I'm currently booted into) cat /proc/fb says 0 control
I'll let you know what the other (floppy is 2.6 Kernel, right?) version says when I have time to reboot. > > Excuse my ignorance, > > how do I specify boot parameters with the hfs boot floppies? > > Ah, indeed, you need ot build a new miboot floppy, not evident. Rick and the > other oldworld guys have in the past looked at how to do this. If you want, i > can build you a specialized boot floppy, so you can try this out. Would be nice to try, yes. But I'm a bit further now, so see below. But I'd try to get the other set of floppies running, too... > BTW, did you try the ofonly boot floppy ? Yes for the rc2, No for the daily build. For rc2 it is also immediately rejected. I also tried to boot into Open Firmware (with serial console attached) and said boot fd but it produces a message saying that the load command is not supported for this device. I have never been able to boot a floppy from OF. > > > Did you try both the floppies and the floppies-2.4 ? > > >From the release-candidates, yes. From your daily build, no. > > Will be the next thing I'll do. > Ok. Done. Interesting effect with 2.4: I have two Monitor Adapters for the mac (no, I don't have a fancy one with dip switches). From my Monitor I'm getting the following info about the signal (and of course very different resolution) with the different adapters (changing of resolutions requires a reboot): - MAC 1152x870 / 75 Hz - MAC 640x480 / 67 Hz I'm *not* seeing the d-i menu with the higher resolution. But when I swith VC to Console 2, i see the d-i menu for an instant. Note that the monitor is *not* out of sync, it still reports the resolution on both VCs. I have veryfied that with the combination of boot/root floppy (from floppy) I'm getting a blank screen with *both* resolutions, so this is a different problem. I'm now installing the base system (!) with the low resolution which means I have successfully connected to the network and partitioned the disk. > > For the release candidates I'm sure it's not the kernel: The floppy is > > immediately ejected. > > Oh, i know why that is, the rc2 floppies where built without miboot, since > miboot is non-free, so there is no chance that those floppies will work. Will this change in a future release? Or alternatively, will your daily build floppies stay available? Thanks for your help Note that I have three other more or less identical machines, so there is some more time to experiment with different installer versions. Ralf -- Ralf Schlatterbeck email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] FAX: +43/2243/26465/23 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
