Re: Installation success on Powerbook G4 (TiBook, the newest model)
Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net> writes:
> On Sat, Nov 10, 2001 at 04:23:18PM +0100, Othmar Pasteka wrote:
> > after that go on as usual. you should use the "Edit kernel parameters" or
> > something like that and enter there the video=ofonly option so it
> > becomes added to the yaboot.conf file so that oyu don't have to
> > provide it yourself when you reboot.
>
> video=ofonly of course should not be necessary and wouldn't be if we
> added the option to boot/install with a 2.4 kernel, 2.2.19 simply
> won't cut it for most of the newwer apple machines, and ofonly video
> is NOT an acceptable long term option (its slow, X won't work right
> etc).
BTW, is anyone working on 2.4 PowerMac boot disks then?
> that being said it seems to make sense to me that if video=ofonly was
> supplied for b-f boot it should be automatically added to the default
> additional boot paramaters. any objections to this? (it would be
> powerpc only of course).
Not from me.
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...Adam Di Carlo..<adam@onshore-devel.com>...<URL:http://www.onshored.com/>
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