Re: Sarge netinst on Pismo
On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 11:57:50AM +0200, Uwe Steinmann wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 11:05:47AM +0200, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote:
> >
> > Uwe Steinmann schrieb:
> > >Hi,
> > >
> > >I just got the latest (14 Oct) sarge installer for powerpc and booted a
> > >Apple PowerBook Pismo. It doesn't get far and starts flashing
> > >the lcd when it trieds to load some kernel modules.
> > So it booted and you got to the language question first. That's at least
> > something. :-)
> No, there was no question at all. It failed earlier.
>
> > >All I can see is an error message about a missing usb-ohci
> > >kernel module. There are other modules (mostly usb related) missing
> > >as well but usb-ohci is the first one.
> > Strange. These modules should not be loaded because usb is compiled into
> > the kernel.
> > >The seems to repeat for ever.
> > So you are never thrown back to the main-menu? When some step is failing
> > it should thorw you back to the main-menu where you can select to try it
> > again or to do another step first.
> As I said. I didn't get as far as a main-menu.
>
> > What do the logs on tty3 and tty4 say? You can also use a shell on tty2
> > to debug what's going on.
> I could switch to tty2 and saw the message about presssing a key to
> get a shell, but I couldn't see what happened afterwards because of
> the flashing lcd. I guess the key press had no effect.
Sounds like it's segfaulting and restarting? You might be able to stop
the flashing using Ctrl-S or Ctrl-C and then switch to console 2 or 3?
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