On Son, 2011-01-23 at 12:43 -0700, Patrick Boutet wrote: > So I have Debian (Lenny) installed on a G4 Xserver cluster node (specs > here). > We put 2 cards in the PCI riser expansion slot, a ATI Radeon 7000 and > a 10/100 Nic. > > > Everything installed fine and was booting perfectly, we setup SSH > tested it and it worked. So at this point we figured we could take the > video card out as it was no longer needed since we could just ssh into > the server. Upon removal of the video card and booting it up we found > that it would no longer boot, it would hang very early in the boot > process. We figured this out by turning on boot logging and found that > it would not even create a boot log file for the times it didn't have > a video card. So we are guessing that it is something with the boot > loader (yaboot) and it hanging because it expects that video card to > be in there. We tried editing our /etc/yaboot.conf file with > several different boot arguments and updating it to the system with > ybin. > novideo > append="video=ofonly" > append="video=radeonfb" > > > Were some of the ones we tried. This was honestly a bit of shooting in > the dark because we were really not sure if it was the boot loader, > but it was our best guess. > > > Anyway so has anyone come across this issue of PPC's not booting up > properly after removal of a video card?
Yes, see http://lists.ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-dev/2010-March/081324.html -- Earthling Michel Dänzer | http://www.vmware.com Libre software enthusiast | Debian, X and DRI developer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1295865544.8612.143.camel@thor.local
