On 9 Oct 2007 at 17:18, brian wrote: > > --- Jeffrey Rolland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hello, all! > > > > I just upgraded my old Power Macintosh 7500 to have > > a Sonnet Crescendo/PCI G4 > > Processor Upgrade Card. The Mac was a dual boot Mac > > OS 8.6 / Debian Linux "Sarge" box. > ≈ > > The problem is Debian won't boot at all; I just get > > a black screen. I have BootX set up to load > > a 2.6.8 kernel (overwrote the exact name of the > > kernel); I'm guessing that the kernel is the > > problem. It probably only works for a 601 processor. > > > > have you tried the default kernel from sarge ??? that > is on the sarge install cd. there were 2.4 and 2.6 > kernels.
Sorry it took so long to get back to you; I needed to buy a new mouse, and it just came today. Yes, I tried the default kernels from Sarge. The guy who helped me set up Sarge had configured BootX to boot from a ramdisk/kernel on the Mac OS partition and gave BootX an optional parameter for root's ]\parition; I have no idea if this is standard. I know Yellow Dog 3.x had you configure BootX to load the kernel on root's parition. > otherwise, I would suggest ydl2.0 for a rescue disk. > (the entire distro fit on 1 cd the last time it did > and the mac hardware support is very good) > > i have not tried your particular configuration but > i have had "black screen" on a couple older machines > and this was part of my procedure and i did get etch > going eventually. > > however, one old 8500 i had to turn up the bright and > contrast all the way and then could barely still > see the console at night with all the lights out. > however(2) once Xwindows started it was fine. The monitor has the power light begin flashing, so I don't think that the problem is waiting for X-Windows to start; I think the kernel isn't loading. > assuming that this card is compatible with linux (i > have no idea) you could really use a decent video > card and ide controller (or something) with the g4 ... > > you may have better luck with osX, xpostfacto, and > fink (debian ports to osX), or opendarwin or > something. > > i have a bunch of old macs but even without upgrade > cards i would say you have to be really determined > to work on them. it has rewards but it is hard work. > also takes a lot of patience you cannot be in so > much of a hurry upgrading three things at once ! > (make that 6 things since 601 to g4 is three already) > > brian I was really hoping ot hear from one of the people who assured me they had used Sonnet cards with Debian; if you're out there (John Schmidt, Peter Rooney, Ralf Saalmüller), please give a shout-out. > > I had the guy throw out the 601 processor, so going > > back temporarily isn't an option. I am > > having a devil of a time getting the Old World Mac > > booted to use the Etch Install CD. (I am > > really interested in upgrading to Etch. There is > > nothing on the Linux parition I care about > > saving.) Floppy booting doesn't work, probably > > because of the Sonnet Extension. Etch > > doesn't include Ramdisk/Kernel images to use with > > BootX. > > > > >From my previous posting on 10/29/2006, it appears > > that people have had success booting > > into Sarge with a Sonnet card. So, if someone would > > post with a kernel that allows me to boot > > into Sarge with the Sonnet card and from where to > > download the kernel, I should be able to > > handle upgrading to Etch by myself at that point. > > > > Thank you in advance for any assistance you can > > provide. > > > > Sincerely, > > -- > > Jeffrey Rolland > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <snip> -- Jeffrey Rolland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "The weed of crime bears bitter fruit; crime does NOT pay! The Shadow knows!" - _The Shadow_
