Re: problem installing debian-506-powerpc

[Zsombor <zsombibi@gmail.com>]

Ah, there was no problem with the installer neither boot/kernel
parameters. The reason is unsufficient memory for the ramdisk. After
cleanup:

[enter OF prompt]

dev nvram
wipe-nvram

installer started happily.

Thanks for the effort,

regards

Zsombor

On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 6:34 PM, Lennart Sorensen
<lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 06:04:27PM +0200, Zsombor wrote:
>> It is happenning during the install, just after I boot from CD and
>> choosing 'install64' (and any *64) . Tried with all imaginable boot
>> parameters this problem still persists. But I also hate yaboot so I
>> give a chance with grub2 & squeeze.
>>
>> Thank you for the advise!
>
> Hmm, at least the daily build installer I used about 2 months ago booted.
>
> I had to do 'install64 video=ofonly'.  Without the ofonly option it
> won't boot for me.
>
> yaboot on the install CD is fine, but yaboot for disk access is hopeless
> (The debian package hasn't been updated in years, and the fixed version
> that would work for these machines isn't in Debian as a result).
> Given yaboot doesn't do software raid, modern linux filesystems or
> anything else, grub2 is highly preferable even if it takes some manual
> work to install.
>
> --
> Len Sorensen
>