Bug#614583: Keyboard fails to respond while starting Debian-Installer on Debian 6 "Squeeze" for PowerPC on a G5
2011/3/2 Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>:
> On Tue, 2011-02-22 at 13:02 +0000, Leandro Doctors wrote:
>> (It boots fine from the CD.)
>> -Yaboot 1.3.13 shows the initial text screen (with black background)
>> asking to select the installation method.
>> -We select install mode (either "install" or "expert").
>> (The kernel starts loading...)
>> -The system shows the next text screen (with white background), asking
>> to write "mac-install". From that point, the keyboard does not
>> respond anymore.
>
> Does this screen say 'Welcome to Open Firmware'? And does it prompt you
> to type 'mac-install' or 'mac-boot'?
Yes. As I said before, it's at that moment when it hangs up.
> I tried to reproduce this on a PowerBook G4 with an external USB
> keyboard. This keyboard worked at the boot prompts and in the
> installer.
>
> However, I was able to provoke similar symptoms by initially selecting
> 'install64' where I should have selected 'install'.
>
> Since the G5 is a 64-bit processor (unlike the G4), please try selecting
> 'install64' instead of 'install'.
You're right: typing "install64" instead of "install" solves the problem.
Now the installer is loaded, and the keyboard works fine there.
Although we are not going to install Debian into that machine (while
this bug was being worked out, a colleague of mine installed MacOS X
into it :-(, this solved the problem. Which is what matters.
Thank you very much for your help, guys.
L
BTW: It would be nice if the bootloader showed the install options
(including graphical setup) in a more explicit way. I wasn't aware of
this *64 options until Ben told me about it.
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