On Sat, Jan 11, 2003 at 07:09:04PM -0800, Steven Schlansker wrote: > (I hope this is the right list to post this on. If it's not, please > tell me) > I have just finished installing Debian, and I tried to make it > bootable. I then restarted the machine, and Open Firmware popped up > saying 'CLAIM failed' I looked in the documentation, and it said that > my 6360 can't boot with an internal video card. I have neither a > serial console or an external card. Is there an alternative, such as > using my G4 tower as a serial console, and if nothing else, where I can > find such a serial console. Thanks a bunch, > Steven Schlansker
A message in the archives mentions that it won't boot if the OpenFirmware default output device is the video card; and must be set to serial I/O (ttya). Is this what the docs you are referring to say? If so, that won't actually prevent it from booting. If you set the output device to ttya, you won't see OpenFirmware on the screen, but others have had success booting; once Linux is booted it initializes the video. However, the CLAIM failed might mean your boot-device setting isn't correct, you can use nvsetenv boot-device [EMAIL PROTECTED]:0 or something similar (you will need a valid OF path) from the installer's shell. -- "The way the Romans made sure their bridges worked is what we should do with software engineers. They put the designer under the bridge, and then they marched over it." -- Lawrence Bernstein, Discover, Feb 2003
