Sorry for the huge mail... I figured it out... too much RAM I guess. I took out 512 and the installer booted...
Benja On Thu, 6 Dec 2001, Pan wrote: > Hi > > I have a Blue&White G3 (Server) and I was trying to install debian on it. > > My OF version says Apple PowerMac1,1 1.1f4 BootROM built on 04/09/99 OF > version 3.1.1 > > I tried everything I could imagine, everything that I could find online... > This is the story... let's see if someone can help me. > > It's not a CD problem: I already used it to install debian on my laptop > with no problems. > > If I boot off the cd, I get to the booting screen, and when I hit enter, > it goes to a white screen with some quiesce-something message. Then it > freezes. > > If I try to boot to OF and then type "boot cd:\\yaboot" I end up on the > same booting screen as the step before, and end up frozen again. > > If I try downloading the files (as indicated on the how-to in debian.org) > I get the same kind of problem. > > I tried adding the 'video=ofonly' with no success. > > Yaboot says welcome to yaboot version 0.9. Then it says wrong partition 1 > signature, and after I (hit enter/type debian/type install)(<-- depending > on the installation type) it spits the white screen that says > > STARTOFOUTPUT > ------------------------------ > ... ok > copying OF device tree...done > Calling quiesce ... > > DO-QUIESCE finishedbooting... > ----------------------------- > ENDOFOUTPUT > > I don't understand what's wrong... I thought it might be the fact that I > had 2 video cards. I took the second one out, leaving the original one in, > reset PRAM just in case (3 or 4 times) and nothing. > > Things that might affect (maybe, I'm not sure): > > I have 1 IDE drive (where I want to install debian) and 2 scsi drives > (that are not going to become part of the install). The IDE drive shows up > as /dev/hdc or /dev/ata1.0 for pdisc... > > Any help will be greatly appreciated. > > Benja > > >
