On Thu, Jun 01, 2006 at 03:00:47AM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote:
> Package: debian-installer
> Severity: Important
>
> I've been trying to test install the "etch" daily netinst CD on an
> oldworld Mac (beige G3) and I can't get off first base because I can't
> get the video to co-operate.
>
> I'm using the BootX bootloader under MacOS-9.2.2
>
> Before I begin describing my problems, let me state that I was able to
> install "sarge" using just about any of the available combinations of
> video setting in BootX ("Force video settings" checkbox on or off, "No
> video driver" checkbox on or off, and any one of three settings for "More
> kernel arguments:" -- "video=ofonly", "", and
> "video=atyfb:vmode:17,cmode:8") (Does anybody know what the two video
> checkboxes translate into in terms of kernel arguments???)
>
> The problem is that, no matter what I set for video options in BootX,
> using the "debian-testing-powerpc-netinst.iso" CD image from
>
> http://cdimage.debian.org/daily-builds/arch-latest/powerpc/iso_cd/
>
> I get unreadable stuff on the screen during the part that should be
> kernel messages and evenutally it hangs. I never get to the language
> chooser screen at all.
>
> In some cases I get tiny unreadable green text which is duplicated
> between the left and right halves of the screen, followed by readable
> characters in white saying:
>
> Preparing boot params...
> Preparing BAT...
> pmac_init(): exit
> id mach(): done
> MMU: enter
> MMU: hw init
> hash: enter
> hash: find piece
> hash: done
> MMU: mapin
> MMU: setio
> MMU: exit
>
> then it hangs.
>
> In other cases (in particular with none of the BootX video checkboxes
> set and with kernel args set to "video=ofonly") I get a seemingly random
> collection of white dots on a black screen (nothing recognizable as
> potential kernel messages) and it hangs.
>
>
> Is the ATI video driver compiled into the kernel on this CD?
Does this error still occur with more recent kernel versions?
Cheers,
Moritz
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