On 28/06/12 06:15, deleteme wrote:
Just installed Squeeze (debian-6.0.4-powerpc-netinst.iso) on a working
New World iBook G3, and everything went smoothly until the first boot
up of the new system. After displaying the typical sequence of
line-by-line boot progress, the log-in screen was presented to me in a
completely jumbled fashion. It is unreadable, though presumably it is
asking for my username and password. No hardware problem is suspected.
Now I'm stuck because I can't ascertain what the problem is, and I
won't be able to use any advice like "type this, click that, execute
such-and-such." Probably everything is working except this screen
glitch. What happened? What can I do? Is there a known fix without a
lot of "try this, try that" guesswork?
Thanks,
--Rob
Sounds as though you've the wrong keymap. Normally you would need to do
as root:
# dpkg-reconfigure console-data
If you have another machine, the easiest way to fix this is to ssh into
the iBook. However, if you don't have another machine or ssh installed
it's a hit and miss, trial and error process to fix it.
HTH
