Re: Screen garbled - Was :Re: Kernel panic : VFS : unable to mount root fs
On Sun, Nov 03, 2002 at 11:20:35AM -0800, Johan en Katrien Dewaele wrote:
> Hi,
> > > > > I acquired this old Mac PPC 4400/200
...
> One thing I noticed and find very strange: when I zap
> the PRAM (alt-cmd P R) I almost immediatly get the
> white screen with the arrow and then the Mac searches
> for a bootable disk (Linux boot-floppy or MacOS-disk).
>
>
> From the moment I make a change in the PRAM (ie the
> boot-device ata/ata-disk@0:0 and boot-file Linux to
> boot the Linux-disk), either with nvsetenv or
> bootvars, and reboot : I get a garbled screen : I even
> don't get the initial white screen : it's garbled too.
>
> I would suspect a hardware problem but then why don't
> I get the garbled screen with the Debian boot floppy?
Maybe BootX would be better? No need to mess with OF.
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