Hm.. I have the same problem as you. I can't get the kernel to boot. yaboot boots fine, but when i run the kernel to install debian the system freezes homehow. When i downloaded yellowdoglinux and booted from their cd they have an option called install-novideo. That was a line in yaboot.conf under the image "novideo". But when i tried to copy yaboot, vmlinux and yaboot.conf from the debian cd and putted it in my system folder and added the line "novideo" in yaboot.conf i got this error message when i booted yaboot from OF with this command: "cd:\\yaboot" (yaboot boots)
(And displays this error message) Config file error: Bad use of \ in quoted string near line 0 in file\\yaboot.conf Syntax error or read error config. I have no quoted sting, just the init-message="". I just copied the yaboot.conf from the debian cd. Very strange. Please can anyone help me? Best regards Martin -----Original Message----- From: Michel Dänzer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: den 21 februari 2001 22.14 To: Jonathan Wight Cc: Debian PowerPC list Subject: Re: Debian Potato on G4/AGP Jonathan Wight wrote: > > On 02/20/2001 23:39, "Jonathan Wight" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I had Debian Potato (downloaded the ISOs) up and running quite lovely on a > > Powerbook G3/Firewire and have now managed to get a spare G4/AGP to run as > > a dedicated Linux server. Unfortunately I can't get the darned thing to > > boot up from my Debian CD... > > > > I've tried booting from CD with the mouse and without the mouse and > > nothing seems to change. The only thing notable with this G4 is the extra > > ATI Rage-128 video card in it - but I see the boot process is picking both > > video cards up quite fine. > > Damn. Forget that. Removing the 2nd ATI card fixed it. Should have tried > that before shooting off the email. My apologies. That's strange though - have you tried a 2.4 kernel with both cards? -- Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper) \ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer CS student, Free Software enthusiast \ XFree86 and DRI project member -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
