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Bug#281878: installation-reports: Several failures with RC1 on Oldworld Powermac



On Fri, Nov 26, 2004 at 07:25:36AM +0800, Cameron Patrick wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 21, 2004 at 09:40:43PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
> 
> > Could you please provide this information ? a full lspci and lspci -n output
> > would be very welcome.
> 
> I'll see what I can do (probably won't have time to experiment more
> until early next week).  Do the d-i images have lspci included or will
> I have to find a more cunning way of getting this information?

Just look at /proc/pci and /proc/bus/pci/devices with more.

> > > The 2.6 boot floppies (boot.img and ofonlyboot.img) didn't work at
> > > all.  I got a penguin with mac on the screen, it read in the floppy
> > > for a while, and then hung.
> > 
> > With a strange color penguin and a black background ? 
> 
> From memory, the colours stayed normal and the background was the grey
> and black one that you get when the machine boots normally with the
> "happy mac" icon.

Mmm, this is different from what we were seeing. The icon kind of
reverse-videoed, and the machine stopped.

> > > The 2.4 ofonlyboot.img failed in much the same way, but ejected the
> > > floppy from the drive first.  There was no output on the screen or the
> > > serial console.
> > 
> > What happens when you introduce the root floppy after that and press
> > enter ? 
> 
> Not sure, I'll try that in a few days' time.

Ok, 

Friendly,

Sven Luther



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