Info for booting is needed, as that is the only topic I had problems with in debian PPC, 2.2r0 was extreme! 2.2r2 is better on new world Macs
But video is harder! fb is probably not well documented for PPC, I heard, some video stuff: fbset 1024x768-75 -accel False to show your current settings: fbset -s to change all consoles: fbset 1024x768-75 -a -accel False "make the system bootable from the hard drive?" only works on new world Macs I think� Gjermund On s�ndag 7. januar 2001 02:09, Andrew Sharp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I had the exact same problem on this Pmac 7200/megaslow. I sent >in a bug report to the right address at debian, and the >summary of the reply I got was that it appeared to be kernel >bug and they forwarded the report to the appropriate place >for that. I eventually got BootX application to work, but the >documentation is woefully short on how to initially boot >your system. For instance, the BootX on the CD requires that >you have a minimum level of StuffIt Expander on your >system, but none of that is mentioned, not even that you need >StuffIt Expander at all to handle this type of file. If >you're not already a Mac-head, you are left pretty much in the >dark. I did manage to scrounge enough info from many >places around the internet to make a guess that I needed to >download a newer version of StuffIt, but even then I had to >use a search engine to find what web site to go to for it. A >lot more details needs to go into the debian docs for the >PPC distro when it comes to booting and video. There seems to >be a whole lot of assumptions made about what the user is >knowledgeable about. Of course I am the perfect test-idiot >when it comes to powerpc. > >It isn't a problem with COFF v. ELF or any of that. The kernel >boots, it just doesn't get the ADB keyboard >working/functional. Once you paw through 57 different doc >sources, you can get BootX to work, and then go from there. >If you don't already have a MacOS partition running, you are >probably in an pretty tough spot. > >The CDROM drive won't boot the CD, I assumed it is because this >old machine isn't capable, but I don't know. I tried a >new SCSI CDROM drive in it, it refused to even recognize the >drive on boot up. > >Another humorous bug is that during the install, it says "make >the system bootable from the hard drive?" and of course >you say "yes", and it acts like it did something excellent, but >it didn't. I think this part of the install is a noop on >PPC, is that right? Should be #ifdef'd out. > >a > >Manea Mirko wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I am trying to install debian on a power G3 beige. >> >> I downloaded >> >ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/potato/main/disks-powerpc/2.2.19-2000-12-03/powermac/images-1.44/boot-floppy-hfs.img >> >> and >> >> >ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/potato/main/disks-powerpc/2.2.19-2000-12-03/powermac/images-1.44/root.bin >> >> When I start with the boot floopy, the kernel is loaded and then I am prompt >> for ramdisk (ie root.bin, I think). >> >> The problem is that if I press enter, nothing happens! In fact the keyboard >> seems locked. Is this a known problem ? I tried to write boot image to >> many floppies, but nothing changes.. I also reset open firmware with >> command-option-R-P.. >> >> Any help would be appreciated ! >> >> Thanks! >> >> Mirko >> >> -- >> To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >-- >To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >
