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Re: Debian Potato on G4/AGP



On Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 08:25:19AM +0100, Martin Svensson wrote:
> Hm.. I have the same problem as you. I can't get the kernel to boot. yaboot
> boots fine, but when i run the kernel to install debian the system freezes
> homehow. When i downloaded yellowdoglinux and booted from their cd they have
> an option called install-novideo. That was a line in yaboot.conf under the
> image "novideo". But when i tried to copy yaboot, vmlinux and yaboot.conf
> from the debian cd and putted it in my system folder and added the line
> "novideo" in yaboot.conf i got this error message when i booted yaboot from
> OF with this command:
> "cd:\\yaboot"  (yaboot boots)

you don't need to copy yaboot anywhere, just boot from the debian CD
and when you get a Boot: prompt type:

linux video=ofonly

or 

debian video=ofonly

im not sure what label is used, press tab to see.  

-- 
Ethan Benson
http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/

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