Hi, I recently decided to get rid of my OS X installation on my Umax Pulsar, so I installed Debians stable release using BootX and the current netboot-Image. Installation went fine, except for the fact that I couldn't configure RAID, but I'm planning to do this later on. Quiks installation wasn't that easy, I forgot that /boot has to be on the same partition as /, and that this partition has to be ext2. The system is up and running now, but I have some minor problems I hope someone might have a solution to: - While booting the machine I see the Tux-Logo, but no boot message. Instead, there is a small area on the left side below the logo, where colored dots are moving upwards. Between the logo and this area, there is a really small, blinking cursor. Output starts when the system configures the console, on first boot this means when the charset is set, on every following boot the first output I see is the login message itself. - I installed fbset and selected a higher resolution for my current console. I noticed that when the selected resolution is higher than 800x600-75 switching to a console running in the default resolution and back doesn't work: My screen remains black, and it complains about the frequency. Typing the same fbset-command (or using history) again makes the console working again. Switching between consoles with the same resolution works thou. In my example, I used 1280x1024-75.
The machine is an Umax Pulsar (S900) with G3/400 MHz Upgrade, ATI Radeon 7500 64MB and 592MB RAM. Kernel (Version 2.6.8) and netboot-initrd are both the current versions found in stable. I checked the archives but couldn't find any posting related to my problems, I found a few hints about problems with changing consoles on a previous version of D-I, but this doesn't seem to be related. Is there anyone here on this list who experienced the same phenomenas and can advice how to get rid of them? Bye, Christian
