On Sun, Jan 07, 2001 at 12:27:40PM +0100, Gjermund Gusland Thorsen wrote: > 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:
I found this: http://www.linux-france.org/article/materiel/mac/xf86config.html it's written in french, but with babelfish it's readable. > > 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] > > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Best Regards, Mirko Manea <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> URL: http://www.mami.net
