On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 09:21:24AM +0800, Tomasz Grzegurzko wrote: > I am having a world of difficulty getting Debian to boot on my > powermac 7200 all because of the video driver/parameters used. > Although some months back (probably in February or so) I was able to > do an install, since about then the miboot floppy from > <http://people.debian.org/~luther/d-i/images/daily/powerpc/floppy/> > I've tried a few images over these months, and nearly all have > suffered the "screen blank after reading boot disk" problem -- as soon > as Linux engaged the framebuffer, the screen goes black. You can swap > floppies to the root image, hit enter and it will read (and presumably > continue) but it's a bit difficult to do an install without seeing the > screen. > > http://people.debian.org/~wouter/d-i/powerpc-miboot/daily/ > I tried this image today (27-Jul-2006) and suffered the same fate.. > > At the time of the successful install, I got around the problem with > the floppy drive not creating a device node by putting it there > manually with select mkdir/mknod commands. Have you tried the ofonlyboot.img as the boot instead of boot.img? -- GnuPG Key Fingerprint 86 F5 81 A5 D4 2E 1F 1C And that's my crabbing done for the day. Got it out of the way early, now I have the rest of the afternoon to sniff fragrant tea-roses or strangle cute bunnies or something. -- Michael Devore
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