Bug#122228: boot-floppies: [ppc] Can't install on Apple Cube
Package: boot-floppies
Version: 3.0.17
Severity: normal
When attempting to install from a hard disk on a Cube with the boot
floppies from the current archive the kernel appears to fail to init the
framebuffer. After the early boot messages (the ones displayed using
OpenFirmware) finish the display remains unchanged
Replacing the kernel with a current benh rsync one allowed startup to
proceed but the installer then denied the existance of my hard disk
despite the fact that the kernel was quite happy with it. I was able to
complete the install by shelling out and running mac-fdisk, mkfs and
mount by hand.
-- System Information
Debian Release: 3.0
Architecture: powerpc
Kernel: Linux damiel 2.4.16-ben0 #6 Thu Dec 27 23:26:51 GMT 2001 ppc
Locale: LANG=en_GB, LC_CTYPE=en_GB
Versions of packages boot-floppies depends on:
ii ash 0.3.8-32 NetBSD /bin/sh
ii bf-utf-source 0.01 Source for fonts needed to build b
ii bison 1:1.28-8.1 A parser generator that is compati
ii build-essential 5 Informational list of build-essent
ii busybox 1:0.60.2-1 Tiny utilities for small and embed
ii debhelper 3.0.51 helper programs for debian/rules
ii debiandoc-sgml 1.1.52 DebianDoc SGML DTD and formatting
ii debootstrap 0.1.15.8 Bootstrap a basic Debian system
ii dosfstools 2.8-1 Utilities to create and check MS-D
ii dpkg-awk 1.0.1 Gawk script to parse /var/lib/dpkg
ii file 3.37-3 Determines file type using "magic"
ii flex 2.5.4a-14 A fast lexical analyzer generator.
ii gawk 1:3.1.0-1 GNU awk, a pattern scanning and pr
ii gettext 0.10.40-1 GNU Internationalization utilities
ii libbogl-dev 0.1.7-1 Ben's Own Graphics Library - devel
ii libc6-pic [glibc-pic] 2.2.4-6.0.1 GNU C Library: PIC archive library
ii libgd-dev 1.8.4-7 GD Graphics Library (development v
ii libi18n-langtags-perl 0.26-1 Perl module for dealing with RFC30
ii libnewt-dev 0.50.17-7.3 Developer's toolkit for newt windo
ii libnewt-pic 0.50.17-7.3 Not Erik's Windowing Toolkit, shar
ii libpaperg 1.1.1 Library for handling paper charact
ii libpopt-dev 1.6.2-5 lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii libwww-perl 5.53-2 WWW client/server library for Perl
ii m4 1.4-14 a macro processing language
ii man-db 2.3.20-11 The on-line manual pager
ii perl [perl5] 5.6.1-5 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction
ii pointerize 0.5 Internationalization utilities, ba
ii python-dev 2.1.1-4 Header files and a static library
ii python-xml 0.6.6-5 XML tools for Python [dummy packag
ii recode 3.6-3 Character set conversion utility.
ii slang1-pic 1.4.4-5 The S-Lang programming library, sh
ii tetex-extra 1.0.2+20000804a-2 extra teTeX library files
ii zlib-bin 1:1.1.3-18 compression library - sample progr
ii zlib1g-dev 1:1.1.3-18 compression library - development
Reply to: