Re: Pulsar, BootX and Mach64
On Fri, Sep 19, 2003 at 12:30:42PM +0200, Michael Schmitz wrote:
> > > You are using the same kernel to boot the installer and the
> > > installed system, right? I don't understand why it doesn't work.
> >
> > Hm, I think so. Booting from the floppy there is no problem with
> > the screen output. But from BootX it does not work.
> > I tried several combinations of
> > video=atyfb:vmode:xx,cmode:8
> > but nothing is working. Also with the option "Force ...".
>
> Does booting from floppy bypass MacOS entirely?
>
> (MacOS is known to do weird things to the aty PCI config at least. Maybe
> there's some other issues ...)
The Debian floppy is a simulated MacOS floppy which loads Linux
instead of MacOS. I'd bet PCI configs are not set up by the MacOS
simulation, but I'm not positive.
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