On Mon, Sep 16, 2002 at 06:32:04PM -0400, Andy Bastien wrote: > Second question: I can't boot 2.4.anything. I've tried both Debian's > 2.4.18-powermac and several iterations built from the 2.4.19 source, > and they all do the same thing. I never get out of MacOS; after > clicking on the "Linux" button in BootX (either app or extension), the > hard drive runs for a few seconds, and the system locks up. My > favorite theory is that the Imagine 128 video card is at fault; can > anyone verify or discount this? I've tried all sorts of combinations > of frame buffer settings, with and without "Force video settings" and > "No video driver" in BootX. Other than the two ethernet cards that > I've mentioned there is nothing but the onboard SCSI and ethernet in > the system (and both of those seem to work well enough).
I tried with my 9500. The video card is an ATI Mach64 GX, but I get similar results. With linux.bin from the new-powermac folder, which is kernel-image-2.4.18-newpmac, it doesn't boot. With the linux.bin from the powermac folder (2.2.20), it does. With kernel-image-2.4.18-powerpc, it boots but the video isn't driven; I can ssh in but the blackened MacOS startup logo is still displayed on the tube (using the BootX extension at startup). I don't see any video errors in the dmesg log, though. The kernel-image-2.4.18-powerpc also does not have hfs compiled in. Neither kernel-image-2.4.16-newpmac nor kernel-image-2.4.19-powerpc would boot. -- *------v--------- Installing Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 --------v------* | <http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/installmanual> | | debian-imac: <http://debian-imac.sourceforge.net> | | Chris Tillman [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | To Have, Give All to All (ACIM) | *----------------------------------------------------------------*
