Bug#380187: debian-boot: fails to initialise platinumfb-driver based video controller

["Tomasz Grzegurzko" <tomasz89@gmail.com>]

Package: debian-boot
Version: testing or unstable (miboot images from 26-Jul-2006)
Severity: critical
Justification: breaks the whole system

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.

This problem occurs with both the standard boot.img and the
ofonlyboot.img.



-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
 APT prefers sarge
Architecture: powerpc (ppc32 bit)