On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 10:35:02AM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 12:30:59PM +1100, Ross Vumbaca wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Craig Morehouse wrote: > > >Has anyone tried running Linux on this poard? > > > > > >If successful, please reply both on-list and off, if you don't mind. > > > > Yes. I have the "AmigaOne" PowerPC board. The "Terrasoft" PowerPC board > > (from "MAI") and the AmigaOne are basically the same board, except that > > the AmigaOne has some slight additional stuff. > > I also have a Pegasos board based on the same Mai Logic chipset. Linux > (and Debian) is rumored to work well on it, but alas i have not (yet) a > graphic card which will behave well with it (the fbdev drivers are > causing problems for my matrox millenium II). I will be getting a ATI > Radeon board nextly to solve this. > > BTW, do someone know if it is possible to install debian using the boot > floppies trough a serial console ? My current attempts makes the serial > console show the kernel boot log all right, and the first debian boot > floppy screen, but when the install dialog is supposed to appear, the > one where you can choose the items, then the serial console does not > respond anymore. > > Sven Luther
I have done it, but others have had problems at that point too. There are some references in the archives to the serial console suddenly getting very slow, like 1 character per minute or something. Do you have the boot argument speed set to 38400? -- "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
