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Re: your daily build of powerpc floppies



On Fri, Dec 10, 2004 at 07:02:25PM +0100, Ralf Schlatterbeck wrote:
> I recently discovered your daily build of floppies.
> I can boot them on my oldworld 7600 powermac

What graphic card do you have on this box ? 

> After booting the debian-installer starts and I get
> a black screen. I can switch to the second console to 
> get a shell.

Which floppies are you using ? floppies or floppies-2.4 ? 

Can you give the exact URL ?

> Is there a way for giving boot-parameters so that d-i
> starts up in another mode (maybe no framebuffer)?

Yes, check the installation manual, i believe it contains the info :

  http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/en.powerpc/ch05s02.html

  DEBIAN_FRONTEND=text

and :

  debian-installer/framebuffer=false

may work.

> Note that these floppies are my hope of getting sarge on
> my powermac. The release-candidate 2 floppies are ejected
> directly after boot.

Did you try both the floppies and the floppies-2.4 ? 

> I can boot woody floppies just fine.

Ok, usual story. But we don't know if it is the install itself, the different
miboot or different kernel version which cause the problem.

Make sure to write to debian-boot next time, and to fill an installation
report once you are finished ...

Friendly,

Sven Luther



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