Okay, again, thank you everyone for the information. Looks like this is definitely the video driver.
I am wondering, would I have better results if I tried installing Wheezy or Squeeze instead of Jessie? On Thu, Oct 1, 2015 at 1:37 AM, Herminio Hernandez Jr. < [email protected]> wrote: > Another great resource is here > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PowerPCFAQ#Nvidia_cards > Sent from my iPhone > > On Sep 30, 2015, at 11:23 PM, Roger Harkavy <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Ah, this information is helping! The following options allow me to get to > where what should be the login screen appears, but it is black with a > purple cursor: > > nomodeset > > or > > nouveau.modeset=0 > > From there I can press Ctrl-Alt-F1 and get to a command prompt. > > I also tried these commands but neither of them change anything: > > nouveau.noaccel=1 > > or > > nouveau.config=NvMSI=0 > > Maybe I can try them all together? I don't know. I feel like I am getting > closer, though. It is a problem with the Nouveau driver. > > On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 11:26 PM, Herminio Hernandez, Jr. < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Check this post out >> http://powerpcliberation.blogspot.ca/2015/05/jessie-meets-bigmac.html >> >> It is deal with G5 but I think the Nvidia issue may apply to you. >> >> On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 10:18 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Dear Roger, >>> >>> What I would try is appending "single" to the "Linux" option at the >>> second stage yaboot prompt. >>> >>> Peter >>> >>> >>> >>> On 30/09/15 07:33 PM, Roger Harkavy wrote: >>> >>>> I originally posted this on the Debian user forums but I was directed to >>>> this mailing list. Hopefully I can give you enough information for some >>>> guidance on troubleshooting this. >>>> >>>> I have an iMac G4 "desk lamp," 512k of RAM, 200 GB HD, I believe the >>>> processor is a 7450. I downloaded the Debian Jessie netboot powerpc >>>> "mini.iso" image from here and burned it to a CD: >>>> >>>> >>>> http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/jessie/main/installer-powerpc/current/images/powerpc/netboot/ >>>> >>>> Installation seemed to go smoothly, no errors, and I selected MATE as >>>> the >>>> desktop choice during install. The only other option I selected was the >>>> "additional desktop software" (sorry, do not remember the exact text). >>>> >>>> However, after installation, when it boots, one of the last messages you >>>> see is: >>>> >>>> [FAILED] Failed to start Load Kernel Modules. >>>> >>>> Last line is something along the lines of: >>>> >>>> fb: switching to nouveaufb from OFfb NVDA,NVMac >>>> >>>> And then the text starts dissolving, and the entire screen cycles >>>> through >>>> different colors. I presume it is sitting at the graphical login prompt >>>> but >>>> it's not displaying correctly. >>>> >>>> Based on some Google searches, it seems like I should be able to resolve >>>> this by editing /etc/modules using nano from a command prompt but I >>>> can't >>>> get to that point. After the machine starts cycling through the colors, >>>> I >>>> press ctrl-alt-F1 through ctrl-alt-F12. If there is a command prompt >>>> being >>>> offered, I can't see it. >>>> >>>> I also tried different yaboot options I found in searches that were >>>> supposed to avoid using the video driver. Unfortunately these didn't >>>> work >>>> either, but maybe I'm not choosing the right ones. >>>> >>>> How do I get the machine to boot straight to a regular text login >>>> instead >>>> of the X-based one? >>>> >>>> Also, this machine worked fine running Mac OS X this morning (partition >>>> was >>>> deleted during the install process), so I don't think it's the hardware. >>>> >>>> Please let me know what I can do. Thank you in advance for any help you >>>> can >>>> provide. >>>> >>>> >>> >> >
