Bug#251823: d-i gives black screen Installing sarge beta4 and 20040530 on OldWorld Power Macs]
Well... The black screen problem is solved. Though I'm not completely
sure why it's necessary to do this...
I changed the BootX kernel arguments to
video=atyfb:vmode:13,cmode:8
which uses 8-bit video mode. (the "vmode:3" quoted below is a typo. I
was, and still am, using vmode:13, which is 832x624 pixels mode)
After that it was all pretty much as expected.
Does anybody know why it wants 8-bit mode?
Rick
On Mon, 2004-05-31 at 03:18, Rick_Thomas wrote:
> Package: installation-reports
>
> Hardware -- Macintosh Power PC Beige G3 minitower and Mac PowerPC 6500
>
> Software -- businesscard installation CDs for "beta4" and "20040530"
> downloaded from
> http://gluck.debian.org/cdimage/testing/sarge_d-i/powerpc/{beta4|20040530}/
>
>
> I boot using BootX (since the boot floppy approach won't work on
> OldWorld machines now that miBoot is in the doghouse for being
> politically incorrect)
>
> I use BootX with kernel arguments "video=atyfb:vmode:3,cmode:16" and
> leaving the two check-boxes blank having to do with video modes.
> This setup has worked for me in the past.
>
> When I tell it to boot, I get the picture of Tux in the upper left part
> of the screen, and the rest of the screen is scrolling text from the
> kernel while it sets up the hardware.
>
> Then the suddenly (about the time I'd expect to see the first
> questions from d-i) the screen goes black.
>
> Option-f{234} keys will switch to the usual virtual tty screens, which
> show white text on a black background, pretty much as expected. On the
> "f4" screen, the last couple of lines are:
>
> main-menu[236]: DEBUG: configure cdebconf-udeb, status: 2
> frontend: Setting debconf/language to en
>
> I get this behavior with both the Beta4 and the 20040530 "businesscard"
> install CDs.
>
> I've also tried various other video settings (with and without the BootX
> video-mode checkboxes) to no avail.
>
> I've tried setting DEBCONF_PRIORITY=medium, and that didn't help either.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Rick
>
>
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