Bug#228638: installer not working properly on oldworld powerpc
On Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 08:16:21PM -0300, Rolando Abarca wrote:
> After booting into linux, right after starting the installer the screen
> goes to black. If I switch to other console it works, I can see the
> process running and kill the installer, it will start automatically again
> in that console, but with serious graphical glitches (not highlighting the
> current choice, not responding to keyboard, and things like that).
> My machine is a PowerMac 7200/120, booting with BootX, using kernel
> 2.4.22-powerpc-small (the one that comes in the netinstall cd doesn't
> work), the ramdisk (root.bin) is the one that comes in the cd. Checking
> "no video driver" in BootX does not help.
Does adding
debian-installer/framebuffer=false
to the boot parameters help?
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Matt Kraai http://ftbfs.org/ kraai@ftbfs.org
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