On Sun, Nov 03, 2002 at 11:20:35AM -0800, Johan en Katrien Dewaele wrote: > Hi, > > > > > I acquired this old Mac PPC 4400/200
... > One thing I noticed and find very strange: when I zap > the PRAM (alt-cmd P R) I almost immediatly get the > white screen with the arrow and then the Mac searches > for a bootable disk (Linux boot-floppy or MacOS-disk). > > > From the moment I make a change in the PRAM (ie the > boot-device ata/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:0 and boot-file Linux to > boot the Linux-disk), either with nvsetenv or > bootvars, and reboot : I get a garbled screen : I even > don't get the initial white screen : it's garbled too. > > I would suspect a hardware problem but then why don't > I get the garbled screen with the Debian boot floppy? Maybe BootX would be better? No need to mess with OF. -- *------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) | *----------------------------------------------------------------*
