On Fri, Sep 19, 2003 at 12:30:42PM +0200, Michael Schmitz wrote: > > > You are using the same kernel to boot the installer and the > > > installed system, right? I don't understand why it doesn't work. > > > > Hm, I think so. Booting from the floppy there is no problem with > > the screen output. But from BootX it does not work. > > I tried several combinations of > > video=atyfb:vmode:xx,cmode:8 > > but nothing is working. Also with the option "Force ...". > > Does booting from floppy bypass MacOS entirely? > > (MacOS is known to do weird things to the aty PCI config at least. Maybe > there's some other issues ...)
The Debian floppy is a simulated MacOS floppy which loads Linux instead of MacOS. I'd bet PCI configs are not set up by the MacOS simulation, but I'm not positive. -- Debian GNU/Linux Operating System By the People, For the People Chris Tillman (a people instance) toff one at cox dot net
