Re: Worked with a Firewire drive, but now I'm hanging again

[Richard Kuenz <richard.kuenz@web.de>]

Fadi,


i tried Jessie on a Powerbook G4 15' (radeon) 1,67 and i could achieve 
easy installation and also 3D accelleration with the help of this 
section here
http://ppcluddite.blogspot.it/2012/03/installing-debian-linux-on-ppc-part-iv.html
Did not update to Sid , though.
Why, if ever, should one do that, at this point?
But i rememeber, on my Imac G5, Sid would work, but some things started 
to become, strange and i reverted then. Could not remember though if it 
was the Imac g5 with Nvidia or the Radeon G5 one.

Cheers,
Richard

On 19.05.2017 07:59, Fadi Osman wrote:
> Hello Carlos,
>
> about booting on USB stick , I have tried installing sid (unstable) on PowerBook G4 Aluminum 15' (radeon) and it works (somehow...).
> (maybe it is the way you've written the ISO to USB drive...)
>
> Here are the notes about the installation:
> http://wiki.powerprogress.org/DebianPowerPcStartersManual#Installation_of_Debian_powerpc
>
> Unfortunately - I think I'm having the BLACK SCREEN OF DEATH issue (with radeon).
>
> Funny thing though, everything works just after the installation - but booting the next day gets me into the black screen of death.
>
> I'm doing the installation again this week-end, and I'll keep the logs for a successful xserver start to compare them with the logs for unsuccessful start.
>
> Good luck,
> Fadi.
>
> --------------------------------------------
> En date de : Jeu 18.5.17, Carlos <powerpc1990@gmail.com> a écrit :
>
>  Objet: Re: Worked with a Firewire drive, but now I'm hanging again
>  À: debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org
>  Date: Jeudi 18 mai 2017, 16h52
>
>  Hello guys,
>
>  now I have copied the ISO to a Firewire
>  drive.
>
>  First I got an error
>  during installation.
>  Then I typed
>  „install32 video=ofonly“
>
>  This worked :-)
>  But now I’m
>  hanging at „Detect and mount CD-ROM“ in the main menu of
>  the installer.
>  The installer said, no CD-ROM
>  drive found. Now he forces me to define the directory of the
>  driver. But I don’t know this.
>
>  A also can’t open the shell. Alt+F2 don’t
>  work.
>
>  Any advise,
>  please