Hi! Everyone, I'm hoping someone on the list can help me. I've recently obtained a couple of surplus MVME1604-014 VME cards (These are the PPC/ PREP/PPCBug ones without a video controller.) on which I would like to install a Debian environment. I can load the latest boot.bin file via tftp from another unix box but apart from the usual bytes loaded and memory location information the only message on the console is "VGA already in text mode" then nothing. How does boot.bin recognise the various supported configurations. (I couldn't find the source) I'm new to these cards so maybe I have a hardware configuration error?
The MVME1604 isn't mentioned on the Debian web site so does this mean that it's not supported yet? Any and all help/information will be gratefully received. Once I get this working I hope to be able to contribute to the development effort, I just need to get over this first hurdle! Best regards Mark Mark Bover -- ############################### Networked Systems Administrator Thomson Training & Simulation ###############################