Re: G4/400

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt <bh40@calva.net>]

On Mon, Mar 20, 2000, Micha Kersloot <micha@kovoks.nl> wrote:

>As a debian user for the intel platform, I would like to install Debian on
>my new G4/400, but... When I boot from BootX with the linux (8 march 2000)
>kernel or the BenH kernel it comes with 3 errors
>1) USB device not responding
>2) hdc: lost interrupt
>3) hda: lost interrupt.
>
>After all it boots to the debian install, but nor my keyboard or mouse are
>working. Can anyone help?

Booting the new machines with BootX is not supported and is known to
cause the kernel to be unreliable. You should use yaboot. It's a bit more
complex to configure but with the help of Ethan Benson "ybin" tool, you
should be able to set it up without too much problem.