Package: debian-boot Version: testing or unstable (miboot images from 26-Jul-2006) Severity: critical Justification: breaks the whole system
I am having a world of difficulty getting Debian to boot on my powermac 7200 all because of the video driver/parameters used. Although some months back (probably in February or so) I was able to do an install, since about then the miboot floppy from <http://people.debian.org/~luther/d-i/images/daily/powerpc/floppy/> I've tried a few images over these months, and nearly all have suffered the "screen blank after reading boot disk" problem -- as soon as Linux engaged the framebuffer, the screen goes black. You can swap floppies to the root image, hit enter and it will read (and presumably continue) but it's a bit difficult to do an install without seeing the screen. http://people.debian.org/~wouter/d-i/powerpc-miboot/daily/ I tried this image today (27-Jul-2006) and suffered the same fate.. At the time of the successful install, I got around the problem with the floppy drive not creating a device node by putting it there manually with select mkdir/mknod commands. This problem occurs with both the standard boot.img and the ofonlyboot.img. -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers sarge Architecture: powerpc (ppc32 bit) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
