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Re: Problems installing Sarge (Debian 3.1r7) on Amiga 4000T



On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 03:20:03PM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> On Thu, 31 Jan 2008, Stephen R Marenka wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 09:47:26AM +0100, Daniele Gratteri wrote:
> > > Stephen R Marenka ha scritto:
> > > >
> > > >Good source, although I don't know when the last time anyone tested
> > > >amiga was. :)
> > > Eh eh, of course, the source is from you ;-)
> > 
> > :)
> > 
> > > >Was it nativehd, hd-media, or cdrom?
> > > 
> > > cdrom.
> > > But the strange issue is, I won't get any display on screen even if I 
> > > use the initrd from the Sarge CD. Sure, it is much older, but at least 
> > > when used with the 2.4.27 kernel (Sarge CD) it displays fine, but then 
> > > the kernel hangs for the SCSI problems.
> > > 
> > > I will have to try the newer kernels on my Amiga 1200 where I managed to 
> > > do an installation of Sarge, but there I am stuck with no network 
> > > because if I am right the PCMCIA 3Com 3C589 is not supported :-(
> > 
> > Try adding console=tty to the kernel args? 
> > 
> > Hopefully Geert or one of the other amiga guys can help us out here.
> > 
> > Anybody got an amiga you can test with the dailydi images and see if 
> > they still work? You can bail out at language selection for our purposes
> > today. :)
> 
> Sorry, I compile my own kernels. But last Sunday 2.6.24 gave video on my
> A4000.

Can you make them available? For our purposes, d-i doesn't care where
the kernel came from. Although I believe everything we need for d-i is 
built-in. 

At least we can determine if this is a kernel or d-i problem. 

> What do you mean with `I won't get any display on screen'? Nothing,
> black? Do you see the penguin? A cursor?
> 
> You have an Amiga 1200, so that's AGA, just like the 4000. What kind of monitor do you have? Do you pass any video mode option?

Thanks,

Stephen

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Stephen R. Marenka     If life's not fun, you're not doing it right!
<stephen@marenka.net>

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