On Mon, 2006-10-23 at 22:00 -0700, Brian Morris wrote: > > What model of 'book is it ? A wallstreet ? > this is powerbook3400, ppc603ev, 80mbRAM,
I have access to one of these, I'll do some tests. > > What image file are you trying to boot from BootX ? Have you tried the > i am trying to boot the latest version from debian unstable, that is > 2.6.18-1-powerpc, that is debian version (dpkg ----list) 2.6.18-3 > > "no video driver" option ? have you waited long enough ? (it might be > > booting but failing to display...) > > well i don't have a black screen, i get the first line and it hangs. > on 15 there is a pause where the screen clears and that was > i think the "black out" place before on g3s but not here. that is > what you called the trampoline ? i don't think this gets that far. > > this powerbook has chips65550 (chips is now subdiv of intel), > not ati. that may explain why quik works on 15 and almost > works on 18. actually i needed quik with 2.6.8 on sarge it turned > out i was getting the random scsci hangs with bootx, but that was > further on in the boot, no evidence of that here. > > quik is quik, it boots faster and runs faster, it would be much > better if i could use it. but it acts like it can't see the ram disk initrd. You might be able to load the zImage.initrd ... I'll have a look > i would be more willing to try building my own kernel if i knew > better what i could take out (config=n). my only guess that quik > will not boot because some people reported earlier with monolithic > kernel it would not boot a kernel bigger than 4mb. Ben. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
