On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 09:21:24AM +0800, Tomasz Grzegurzko wrote:
> I am having a world of difficulty getting Debian to boot on my
> powermac 7200 all because of the video driver/parameters used.
> Although some months back (probably in February or so) I was able to
> do an install, since about then the miboot floppy from
> <http://people.debian.org/~luther/d-i/images/daily/powerpc/floppy/>
> I've tried a few images over these months, and nearly all have
> suffered the "screen blank after reading boot disk" problem -- as soon
> as Linux engaged the framebuffer, the screen goes black. You can swap
> floppies to the root image, hit enter and it will read (and presumably
> continue) but it's a bit difficult to do an install without seeing the
> screen.
>
> http://people.debian.org/~wouter/d-i/powerpc-miboot/daily/
> I tried this image today (27-Jul-2006) and suffered the same fate..
>
> At the time of the successful install, I got around the problem with
> the floppy drive not creating a device node by putting it there
> manually with select mkdir/mknod commands.
Have you tried the ofonlyboot.img as the boot instead of boot.img?