Jens Schmalzing wrote: > > 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. > > The power4 flavour is for the IBM Power4 processors that are built > into the Apple G5 and the IBM pSeries machines. You need powerpc.
aaah! that makes sense... i will now try the 2.6-powerpc images. i had thought "power4" was short for "powerpc G4". im new to PPC so i will have to learn the chip naming conventions. btw... maybe a totally wrong mailing list to be askign this question... but i'd really really like to do some assembly programming on my PPC. can anyone reccomend a good book to learn PPC assembly? i have never done ANY assembly before, so a beginners book would be best as i find learning by example (i.e. gcc output) to be quite intimidating. 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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