Thanks for the quick reply. On Fri, Dec 10, 2004 at 07:16:58PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > On Fri, Dec 10, 2004 at 07:02:25PM +0100, Ralf Schlatterbeck wrote: > > I recently discovered your daily build of floppies. > > I can boot them on my oldworld 7600 powermac > > What graphic card do you have on this box ? The built-in graphics. No extra card.
> > After booting the debian-installer starts and I get > > a black screen. I can switch to the second console to > > get a shell. > > Which floppies are you using ? floppies or floppies-2.4 ? floppies, not floppies-2.4 (for the daily build, for the release-candidate installer I tried both) > Can you give the exact URL ? Daily build as of today: http://people.debian.org/~luther/d-i/images/daily/powerpc/floppy/[br]oot.bin > > Is there a way for giving boot-parameters so that d-i > > starts up in another mode (maybe no framebuffer)? > > Yes, check the installation manual, i believe it contains the info : > > http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/en.powerpc/ch05s02.html > > DEBIAN_FRONTEND=text > > and : > > debian-installer/framebuffer=false > > may work. Excuse my ignorance, how do I specify boot parameters with the hfs boot floppies? > > Note that these floppies are my hope of getting sarge on > > my powermac. The release-candidate 2 floppies are ejected > > directly after boot. > > 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. > > I can boot woody floppies just fine. > > Ok, usual story. But we don't know if it is the install itself, the different > miboot or different kernel version which cause the problem. For the release candidates I'm sure it's not the kernel: The floppy is immediately ejected. > Make sure to write to debian-boot next time, and to fill an installation > report once you are finished ... I have cc-ed this msg to debian-boot. Thanks. 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]
