On Fri, Dec 10, 2004 at 08:14:42PM +0100, Ralf Schlatterbeck wrote: > 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.
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. > > > 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) Cool. > > 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 Ok. > > > 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? 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. BTW, did you try the ofonly boot floppy ? > > > 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. Ok. > > > 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. 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. > > 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, debian-powerpc may also be a good idea. Friendly, Sven Luther -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
