Sven Luther wrote:
I have a Apple XServe on which I would love to install Debian, but with the last attempt (nightly build from march 9th) it failed the recognition of the IDE drives (missing IDE modules), and thus I could not get to the partitioning of the system.Mmm, do you have any kind of linux running on the box, if so, can yousend us the lspci and lspci -n output ?
Alas, no linux on it at all, still MacOSX server. But at least I get it to boot with the installer kernel and got to peek at /proc/pci. Turns out that there is no IDE controller (visible?) but that I am having problems with detection of the RAID controller and hence with the partitioner.
Controller as reported thru cat /proc/pci: 2x Promise Technology, Inc. PDC20271 (rev. 3)
With the nightly from early march i get all to the partitioning section, but there it fails because it can not find any drive to partition at all. With nightly 20040322 it does boot the installer kernel (and I do get vc's on 2/3, etc) but the debian-installer process just sits there with a black screen and a block cursor in the lower left-hand corner. Is this something that the yaboot-installer bug was about?
Kind regards, Pepijn Oomen.