On Fri, May 03, 2002 at 11:17:26AM +0200, Rubin wrote: > Hello People, > > As I've posted before, I have modern debian 3.0 booting succesfully on a > Bull Estrella Series 300 (aka Motorola Powerstack II 4000/Pro). > > After some investigations it turned out that the vga card is severely > out of date (a Cirrus Logic GD5446 /w 256k of ram ;-). Ofcourse, this > machine needs a cool graphics card so my first try was a Diamond FireGL > 3000 with fully loaded texture board (32mb)... The machine refused to > come up (probably because it is anything but "standard" vga"). So as a > second best, I chose my trusty Matrox Millenium II /w 4mb ram. The sytem > agreed, and comes up nicely into the openfirmware screen and presents > the usual bootup and diagnostics options. > > But alas, it was all too good to be true; As soon as the bootloader (I > think quik) loads, the screen goes black and a second later my monitor > states "Out Of Scan Range"... Mmmm.. I tried and reproduced this with > the older (2.2 potato) and newer (3.0 testing). > I'm pretty sure this has to do with the bootloader of debian but I don't > know how to resolve this! > > Interresting enough, running the yaboot bootloader from the ydl 2.2 cd > inits the screen properly and presents me a boot: prompt; Alas, I seem > to be unable to use it to boot my system with as it always returns "No > Such File Or directory" or a "Corrupt Or Invalid Partition".. > > If anybody has any suggestions, please let me know. I'll keep hacking at > it and post whatever I'll find out next ;-)
Addng video=ofonly to the boot arguments is worth a try. I've also seen some sophisticated video boot arguments posted to -powerpc in the past, you might check out the archives. -- *------v--------- Installing Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 --------v------* | <http://www.debian.org/releases/woody/installmanual> | | debian-imac (potato): <http://debian-imac.sourceforge.net> | | Chris Tillman [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | May the Source be with you | *----------------------------------------------------------------* -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
