Bug#264963: Installation report for Apple Blue & White G3 400 from netinstall CD (powerpc, RC1)
Evilpig wrote:
>
> On Wed, 11 Aug 2004 18:35:27 +0100, Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org> wrote:
> > It's not in the lspci output because it's not a PCI card.
> >
> > I thought I'd fixed this one, so I'd like the reporter to show me the
> > output of the following two commands, which you should be able to run on
> > tty2:
> >
> > ls -l "/proc/device-tree$(cat /proc/device-tree/aliases/mac-io)/bmac"
> >
> > find "/proc/device-tree$(cat /proc/device-tree/aliases/mac-io)" -type f -name compatible | xargs grep bmac
> >
> > If the second command gives you a filename, I'd also like to see what's
> > in the device_type file in the same directory.
>
> I will gladly do this as soon as I am able to boot into Debian. I
> thought maybe I could do this from the installer after telling it to
> load the bmac driver, but no such luck. The first command gave me "No
> such file or directory" (also a "find /proc -name bmac" turns up
> nothing).
>
Worry not! I have an equivalent machine that I recently successfully got Debian Sarge working on. I saw your message and got curious, so I did the above stuff on it and sent the results to Colin. Let me know if there's anything I can do to help you get yours working...
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>
> Again, this is hand-typed and may have mistakes so if
> something doesn't look right and needs checked, just ask.
>
> Thanks,
>
> - Colleen
>
> Last visible screen of the boot process:
>
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Wow! Your dedication quotient just got a major bump in karma points! My eyes glaze over just thinking about typing all that!
Enjoy!
Rick
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