Re: new g5 dual core macs

[Chris Burdess]

Thorsten Johannvorderbrueggen wrote:

i have a problem with the debian installation. i wanted to use the

as kernel, the system hangs. the last output i saw is

cf000100

mm init
cf000100

mm init done
cf000012

setup arch

and nothing more happens. after that i tried a ubuntu cd. this one
boots, but after 5 min or so something spins up and makes a lot of
noise. i doesn´t sounds good, so i switch the computer of.

any coments would be useful

latest etch for installation. after starting cd and selecting install64

See http://lists.debian.org/debian-kernel/2006/02/msg00137.html





I also eagerly await a fix for this problem.
--
犬 Chris Burdess
  "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little safety
  deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin

It's because of the nVidia display adapter, the system is booting but there's no display. Note that the installation kernel/initrd for the etch debian-installer CD now works, but the kernel/initrd that gets installed to the hard drive doesn't. Possibly there is a module in the initrd that conflicts with the card. I have had suggestions that I experiment with building a specialised initrd, however I have limited expertise in this area. Note that the Ubuntu (dapper) server installation, which is based on debian-installer, installs a kernel/initrd that doesn't have this problem (so it should be fixable in Debian), however the Ubuntu kernel hangs a few minutes after boot on this system (PowerMac11,2) with ATA device error messages, so it's not currently a Linux solution for you.

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