On Sun, 2004-10-24 at 15:58, Damiano Giorgi wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I'm trying to install Debian on a PowerBook 190, but I got stuck as follows: > > - booting with kernel 2.2.25-20030905, the root.bin ramdisk gets mounted OK > and the installer program starts, but the keyboard doesn't work; > > - booting with kernel 2.4.1-20010311 and the same ramdisk, I get to the > message that reads > VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) > and then everything stops, but the keyboard works. (I've tried all the > root.bin images I could find in <debian>/stable, but they all stop at the > same point.) > > - booting with kernel 2.4.1 and the root.bin.serial.gz ramdisk gets me to > an installer, but the latter claims that no hard drive is present on the > system at all (maybe it cannot find the internal IDE disk, but the kernel > seems to support the IDE bus -- at startup it says "Macintosh PowerBook > Baboon IDE interface"). > > Any suggestions? What am I missing? And last, but not least: my PB has a > Dayna Communicard PCMCIA ethernet adapter, is there any hope that it be > supported under linux/m68k? > There is now a PCMCIA driver for the PowerBook 5300 which works very well. Since the PowerBook 190 appears to be identical to a 5300 with the exception of the processor (190 has 68LC040 and 5300 has 603e) it might be possible to port the driver. Anyone want to trade a 190 for a 5300cs so I can experiment?
Ray Knight
