Jens Schmalzing wrote: > > 2 - maybe related to 1, but i cannot use the virtual terminals. when > > i do Alt-F2 i just get "unknown scancode e0 54", and if i also hold > > down the fn key i get no output at all. > It's a bit complicated. You need to press and hold Alt and Ctrl, then > press and also hold Fn, then finally press F2 on top of all that. For > a long-time Mac user, that's an easy exercise, what with all the PRAM > zapping and OF entering and all that.
ok... turns out i need to press the apple key, then fn then F2... that needs to change IMHO. > > 3 - during the debian installer stage, i needed to use install-safe > > as none of the other options would work. this meant i had to install > > with a 2.4 kernel. i suspect i know what the problem is... as when i > > tried to install the 2.6 kernel i got an error about initrd and then > > the kernel did not boot up the next time. can yaboot handle initrd? > > Yes it can. Just add a line initrd=/initrd.img to /etc/yaboot.conf > and re-run ybin. And make sure you actually create that initrd image, > of course. well, using the debian 2.6.6-power4 image the installer does not do this by default. and loading the kernel results in it just hanging at the screen "opening video device..." or whatever it says. i neevr see the kernel boot up normally. unfortunately if i add the initrd line... it doesn't change a thing. is anyoen successfully using a debian linux-2.6 image on a G4 iBook? cheers, Sam -- Free High School Science Texts http://www.nongnu.org/fhsst/ Sam's Homepages http://fommil.homeunix.org/~samuel/ http://www.ma.hw.ac.uk/~samuel/
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