On Mon, Jun 05, 2000 at 02:06:36PM -0600, telkis@americanisp.com wrote: > I am trying to boot an iBook with a bootable Debian PowerPC CD (image > date 5-30-00). When the CD stars, the yaboot message comes up fine. Then > as the operating systems starts to come up (at about where I think the > installation screen should come up), the screen freaks out with black > and blue vertical bands. I think all I need to do is pass the kernel > some sort of video parameter through yaboot. How does one pass > parameters to the kernel at the yaboot screen? sounds like you need to pass video=ofonly (i think thats right) you should be able to do that like so: when you see the yaboot boot: prompt like this: Welcome to yaboot 0.6 boot: type the following: debian video=ofonly that `should' work. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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