Thanks for your help. In the meantime I even got a nvsetenv output from Guillaume for the 9500 (attached). Mine is basically the same (differences also attached). But is see still the black screen (and the system does not reply on ping, so it is probably not only a display problem). My procedure is currently
- Having the root partition on /dev/sda2 (not sure what sda1 is, I can't get rid of it). - make system bootable from harddisk in dh_bootstrap (creates a (reasonable) quik.conf, (attached)) - /target/sbin/quik -C /target/etc/quik.conf -r /target - chroot /target - nvsetenv boot-device scsi-int/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:0 - optionally change boot-command to what was suggested by Guillaume - Reboot from dh-bootstrap. The I get only sound: a bing, four beeps and another bing. But the screen remains black. If there are no obvious mistakes in this procedure, I think I should realize that Debian is simply not working on the 9500 from Apple (for me and order an i386:-(). An installation cycle is now really qui(c)k, so it is not a big effort to modify something in the procedure. Thanks again for your help. Rainer. > On Mon, Jun 19, 2000 at 09:31:53PM +0200, Rainer Dorsch wrote: > > > > http://www.debian.de/Lists-Archives/debian-powerpc-0006/msg00018.html > > > > That's one of them, yes. > > > This in combination with the above post brought me a black screen (but I > > managed already to start the next installation cycle). Is there any > > deterministic approach to find out the path? Or to get a list of possible > > paths? > > Nope :( That's the big problem. We're working on a way to get this > from the kernel. > > > Can I somehow enter OF as it is possible by pressing Del to enter a i386 > > BIOS? > > Is this documented somewhere? > > You need to hold down cmd-opt-O-F, but first you need to properly set > kbd and screen aliases. I don't know what the 9500 uses. > > > I guess, I should first run quik and then do the chroot. Right? That might > > have been my mistake in the first trial. > > Doesn't matter which order. > > Dan > > /--------------------------------\ /--------------------------------\ > | Daniel Jacobowitz |__| SCS Class of 2002 | > | Debian GNU/Linux Developer __ Carnegie Mellon University | > | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | > \--------------------------------/ \--------------------------------/ > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > #forw [forwarded message] +/home/rainer/Mail/linux/debian/powerpc 25
little-endian? false real-mode? false auto-boot? true diag-switch? false fcode-debug? false oem-banner? false oem-logo? false use-nvramrc? false real-base 0xffffffff real-size 0x100000 virt-base 0xffffffff virt-size 0x100000 load-base 0x4000 pci-probe-list 0xffffffff screen-#columns 0x64 screen-#rows 0x28 selftest-#megs 0x0 boot-device scsi-int/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:0 boot-file diag-device fd:diags diag-file input-device ttya output-device ttya oem-banner oem-logo nvramrc boot-command boot
partition=2 root=/dev/sda2 timeout=100 image=/vmlinuz label=linux read-only
