Doug <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am working on installing Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 r3 "Potato" - > Official powerpc Binary-1 CD on a new world G4. As far as I can > tell, I have the base system installed correctly and used mkofboot > to configure the booting properly. I am unable to get the system to > do an initial boot so I can finish the package installation. > > It begins booting, and gets as far as finding the USB keyboard and > mouse and then it just hangs. If I unplug the keyboard and mouse, > then it gets as far as: Freeing unused kernel memory: 168k init 28k > prep
Weird. This seems like a kernel problem. Is it repeatable? If so, the only thing I can suggest is to try the woody boot-floppies, which might have a newer kernel...