gave it another try this evening, and for no apparent reason, it booted up
to a much furthur place, still not an install, but past memory allocations.
It had a line that said cut here
followed by a slew of messages, some of which began with 'kernel bug' and a
memory dump. I attempted to
I had similar issues with hanging on boot about a month ago with
powerpc and I believe that it ended up being a corrupted boot ram
image. Would drop into a limited shell when it tried to switch to
mounting the root file systems and visually hang. Sounds somewhat
similar, but I cant tell from
Begin forwarded message:
Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org
From: Michael Aldridge aldridge@gmail.com
Date: August 14, 2012 6:05:29 PM PDT
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: PowerPC install stuck at dmesg
After deciding that the official OS was becoming too slow
On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 12:06:09AM -0700, Rick Thomas wrote:
Hi Michael,
First: try sending this to the debian-powerpc list. You may get
more answers there...
Second: I have a couple of G4 tower machines that work just fine,
but unfortunately I don't have any powerbooks to try, so I
@gmail.com
*Date: *August 14, 2012 6:05:29 PM PDT
*To: *debian-user@lists.debian.org
*Subject: **PowerPC install stuck at dmesg*
After deciding that the official OS was becoming too slow for this aging
hardware, and Apple PowerBook G4 FW800 (not sure about the FW800, it could
be the one
: PowerPC install stuck at dmesg
After deciding that the official OS was becoming too slow for this
aging hardware, and Apple PowerBook G4 FW800 (not sure about the
FW800, it could be the one immediately following that model), I
decided to install debian and then a WM such as LXDE, to better
Aldridge wrote:
On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 2:06 AM, Rick Thomas rbtho...@pobox.com wrote:
Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org
From: Michael Aldridge aldridge@gmail.com
Date: August 14, 2012 6:05:29 PM PDT
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: PowerPC install stuck at dmesg
On Aug 15, 2012, at 1:52 PM, Michael Aldridge wrote:
okay, I understand now; although, there is a slight problem with
doing that, I have no other linux machines handy with disk drives.
Is there a way of doing that from the mac terminal?
If you just put the CD in the CD drive with
Debian GNU/Linux 6.0.5 Squeeze- Official powerpc NETINST Binary - 1
20120512-20:49
On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 4:37 PM, Rick Thomas rbtho...@pobox.com wrote:
On Aug 15, 2012, at 1:52 PM, Michael Aldridge wrote:
okay, I understand now; although, there is a slight problem with doing
that, I have
On Aug 15, 2012, at 2:46 PM, Michael Aldridge wrote:
On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 4:37 PM, Rick Thomas rbtho...@pobox.com
wrote:
On Aug 15, 2012, at 1:52 PM, Michael Aldridge wrote:
okay, I understand now; although, there is a slight problem with
doing that, I have no other linux machines
After deciding that the official OS was becoming too slow for this aging
hardware, and Apple PowerBook G4 FW800 (not sure about the FW800, it could
be the one immediately following that model), I decided to install debian
and then a WM such as LXDE, to better use the hardware. I downloaded,
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