Re: Linux on new iMac G5 PowerMac12,1 ?

[Percy Zahl <pzahl@bnl.gov>]

Very good and thx! This works and I was able to start the Debian  
installer, to partition the disk, init with ext3 and begin the Net- 
Install. DHCP worked just fine.
Let's wait for X support then, would be kind of nice to have.

However, the graphical Linux Penguin Logo of the kernel showed up OK!

-Percy

On Jan 21, 2006, at 9:51 PM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:

> On Sat, 2006-01-21 at 21:29 -0500, Percy Zahl wrote:
> > OK, that was my fault and I got a set further now.
> >
> > I hardly got a glimpse on the linux kernel output now again, because
> > it stopped after dumping about one screen of stuff in almost no time
> > with a blank screen this time. But I took my fast digital camera and
> > was able to capture it:
> >
> > The first stage after hitting retun at the yaboot prompt (install):
> > http://mysite.verizon.net/pyzahl/iMac/imac12,1-stage0-linux2.6.16-
> > rc1.jpg
> >
> > Then this for about 1/10 of a second before I got black screen and
> > needed to power off:
> > http://mysite.verizon.net/pyzahl/iMac/imac12,1-stage1-linux2.6.16-
> > rc1.jpg
>
> It seems that the video driver is having a hard time with the new x600
> card in there. (In fact, X doesn't work neither, at least not yet it
> seems). In the meantime, you can probably get a console if you boot  
> with
> video=ofonly on the kenrel command line.
>
> Ben.