Re: TerraSoft PPC Motherboard.
On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 10:35:02AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 12:30:59PM +1100, Ross Vumbaca wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Craig Morehouse wrote:
> > >Has anyone tried running Linux on this poard?
> > >
> > >If successful, please reply both on-list and off, if you don't mind.
> >
> > Yes. I have the "AmigaOne" PowerPC board. The "Terrasoft" PowerPC board
> > (from "MAI") and the AmigaOne are basically the same board, except that
> > the AmigaOne has some slight additional stuff.
>
> I also have a Pegasos board based on the same Mai Logic chipset. Linux
> (and Debian) is rumored to work well on it, but alas i have not (yet) a
> graphic card which will behave well with it (the fbdev drivers are
> causing problems for my matrox millenium II). I will be getting a ATI
> Radeon board nextly to solve this.
>
> BTW, do someone know if it is possible to install debian using the boot
> floppies trough a serial console ? My current attempts makes the serial
> console show the kernel boot log all right, and the first debian boot
> floppy screen, but when the install dialog is supposed to appear, the
> one where you can choose the items, then the serial console does not
> respond anymore.
>
> Sven Luther
I have done it, but others have had problems at that point too. There
are some references in the archives to the serial console suddenly
getting very slow, like 1 character per minute or something.
Do you have the boot argument speed set to 38400?
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