Re: Problem installing debian on G3 beige
Info for booting is needed, as that is the only topic I had problems with in debian PPC, 2.2r0 was extreme! 2.2r2 is better on new world Macs
But video is harder! fb is probably not well documented for PPC, I heard, some video stuff:
fbset 1024x768-75 -accel False
to show your current settings:
fbset -s
to change all consoles:
fbset 1024x768-75 -a -accel False
"make the system bootable from the hard drive?" only works on new world Macs I think?
Gjermund
On søndag 7. januar 2001 02:09, Andrew Sharp <andy@netfall.com> wrote:
>I had the exact same problem on this Pmac 7200/megaslow. I sent
>in a bug report to the right address at debian, and the
>summary of the reply I got was that it appeared to be kernel
>bug and they forwarded the report to the appropriate place
>for that. I eventually got BootX application to work, but the
>documentation is woefully short on how to initially boot
>your system. For instance, the BootX on the CD requires that
>you have a minimum level of StuffIt Expander on your
>system, but none of that is mentioned, not even that you need
>StuffIt Expander at all to handle this type of file. If
>you're not already a Mac-head, you are left pretty much in the
>dark. I did manage to scrounge enough info from many
>places around the internet to make a guess that I needed to
>download a newer version of StuffIt, but even then I had to
>use a search engine to find what web site to go to for it. A
>lot more details needs to go into the debian docs for the
>PPC distro when it comes to booting and video. There seems to
>be a whole lot of assumptions made about what the user is
>knowledgeable about. Of course I am the perfect test-idiot
>when it comes to powerpc.
>
>It isn't a problem with COFF v. ELF or any of that. The kernel
>boots, it just doesn't get the ADB keyboard
>working/functional. Once you paw through 57 different doc
>sources, you can get BootX to work, and then go from there.
>If you don't already have a MacOS partition running, you are
>probably in an pretty tough spot.
>
>The CDROM drive won't boot the CD, I assumed it is because this
>old machine isn't capable, but I don't know. I tried a
>new SCSI CDROM drive in it, it refused to even recognize the
>drive on boot up.
>
>Another humorous bug is that during the install, it says "make
>the system bootable from the hard drive?" and of course
>you say "yes", and it acts like it did something excellent, but
>it didn't. I think this part of the install is a noop on
>PPC, is that right? Should be #ifdef'd out.
>
>a
>
>Manea Mirko wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am trying to install debian on a power G3 beige.
>>
>> I downloaded
>>
>ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/potato/main/disks-powerpc/2.2.19-2000-12-03/powermac/images-1.44/boot-floppy-hfs.img
>>
>> and
>>
>>
>ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/potato/main/disks-powerpc/2.2.19-2000-12-03/powermac/images-1.44/root.bin
>>
>> When I start with the boot floopy, the kernel is loaded and then I am prompt
>> for ramdisk (ie root.bin, I think).
>>
>> The problem is that if I press enter, nothing happens! In fact the keyboard
>> seems locked. Is this a known problem ? I tried to write boot image to
>> many floppies, but nothing changes.. I also reset open firmware with
>> command-option-R-P..
>>
>> Any help would be appreciated !
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Mirko
>>
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