The problem is that I do not see yaboot prompt, it hangs almost imediately. Looks like Debian kernel does not like my motherboard with FireWire or video. BTW, hardware is OK because MacOS 9 runs without any problems.
-------- >Pop said CD into drive, and boot with "debian video=ofonly" at the yaboot >prompt. -------- >I have an Apple iBook with FireWire (Summer 2000 model), and it seems I >run into troube installing Debian. > >1) Potato 2.2r2 CD#1 could not be used as startup - hangs at the beginning >with strange video artifacts. Nothing helps. > >2) I can install LinuxPPC (Red Hat v7 based) without complete reformatting >my HD (I have 6 GB MacOS 9 partition and 4 GB unallocated). Is it possible >to use LinuxPPC partitioning scheme later with Debian? LinuxPPC uses 32 MB >HFS startup partition to load Linux kernel. I like this more rather >creating non-editable bootstrap partition. > > >Any help would be apreciated. > >Thanks in advance.
