Re: "Setting Up General Console Font" DebianPPC error lockup

2003-09-08 Thread Ole-Egil Hvitmyren
Thomas Otto wrote: Or, wait to see if somebody else here has an easier way. ;-) I would say you just boot your current system with the parameter 'init=/bin/bash', then do an fsck of the root fs, remount the root parition read-write and try to fix it. Now that sounds a _lot_ easier : you'll

Re: "Setting Up General Console Font" DebianPPC error lockup

2003-09-08 Thread Ole-Egil Hvitmyren
Thomas Otto wrote: We haven't got a boot selector yet. The environment can point to exactly one partition for booting, and if I've read it right it will load the first file on that - it has to be a PReP partition, and since it doesn't have a filesystem I guess there's only ever one file. Alter

Re: "Setting Up General Console Font" DebianPPC error lockup

2003-09-06 Thread Ken Moffat
On Sat, 6 Sep 2003, Thomas Otto wrote: > > Wonder why they didn't use openfirmware like most PPCs - backwards > compatibility to older AmigaOS - or is this firmware not as "open as in > speech"? > It sort-of thinks it's an x86, so you can (have-to) use non-mac graphics cards (well, radeons and td

Re: "Setting Up General Console Font" DebianPPC error lockup

2003-09-06 Thread Thomas Otto
Now that sounds a _lot_ easier : you'll need to repeat *all* of the bootargs when you run `setenv', then do not run savenv, go straight to `bootd'. Thanks for the clarification, Thomas. Erm - did I miss the tag here ;-) ? No sarcasm intended, the instruction was for the OP (could have made t

Re: "Setting Up General Console Font" DebianPPC error lockup

2003-09-06 Thread Ken Moffat
On Sat, 6 Sep 2003, Thomas Otto wrote: > >>> Or, wait to see if somebody else here has an easier way. > >> > >>;-) > >>I would say you just boot your current system with the parameter > >>'init=/bin/bash', then do an fsck of the root fs, remount the root > >>parition read-write and try to fix it.

Re: "Setting Up General Console Font" DebianPPC error lockup

2003-09-06 Thread Thomas Otto
Or, wait to see if somebody else here has an easier way. ;-) I would say you just boot your current system with the parameter 'init=/bin/bash', then do an fsck of the root fs, remount the root parition read-write and try to fix it. Now that sounds a _lot_ easier : you'll need to repeat *all*

Re: "Setting Up General Console Font" DebianPPC error lockup

2003-09-06 Thread Ken Moffat
On Sat, 6 Sep 2003, Thomas Otto wrote: > > $ cd /etc/init.d > $ grep -i font * > [...] > console-screen.sh: echo -n "Setting up general console font..." > [...] > > That looks like the script you'll have to look into. Maybe it tries to > set a font defined in /etc/console-tools/config that is

Re: "Setting Up General Console Font" DebianPPC error lockup

2003-09-06 Thread Thomas Otto
I have a great AmigaONE computer with DebianPPC Sid (unstable) version. Today I have installed, with apt-get all latest updates, but, when the computer reset and inizialize the system, it lockup at this point: Setting Up General Console Font How I can restore my system and correct this error?

Re: "Setting Up General Console Font" DebianPPC error lockup

2003-09-06 Thread Ken Moffat
On Sat, 6 Sep 2003, SpawnPPC wrote: [ I've cut the general users list ] > Dear Debian(PPC) user's, > > I'm Emanuele, from Italy. > > I have a great AmigaONE computer with DebianPPC Sid (unstable) version. > Today I have installed, with apt-get all latest updates, but, when the > computer reset and

"Setting Up General Console Font" DebianPPC error lockup

2003-09-05 Thread SpawnPPC
Dear Debian(PPC) user's, I'm Emanuele, from Italy. I have a great AmigaONE computer with DebianPPC Sid (unstable) version. Today I have installed, with apt-get all latest updates, but, when the computer reset and inizialize the system, it lockup at this point: Setting Up General Console Font