Re: Installing Etch on a VME PPC CPU Board

[Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>]

On 05/30/07 22:56, SHS wrote:
> After running the default install from SCSI CDROM on an MVME2700-3361 the
> GUI will not start. It fails with "No screens found."
>
> The video card is a Motorola MPMC301 with a Cirrus Logic GD5446 chip. I've
> tried two of the MPMC301. 
>
> I've used an MVME2604-1361 with the MPMC301 VGA card and an MVME4604-5461
> with an on-board VGA chip and they have the same error. 
>
> Is there a way to get the boot process to skip the IDE probe, the board is
> booting from the SCSI port and hangs for several minutes while trying to
> look at the IDE hardware which I don't think is there. 
>
> Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Since VME boards are quite specialized, these two mailing lists 
would better server you:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/
http://lists.debian.org/debian-68k/

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Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA  USA

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