Re: Debian on PowerMAC G4

2000-03-18 Thread Joel Klecker
At 11:10 +0100 2000-03-09, Markus Geimer wrote: >I've tried to install Debian GNU/Linux ("frozen") on an Apple PowerMAC >G4-450 ("Sawtooth") using BootX 1.2b3 and a special, precompiled kernel >(2.2.14) from Benjamin Herrenschmidt but encountered the following >problem: > >The Linux kernel boots, l

Re: Debian on PowerMAC G4

2000-03-09 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Thursday 9 March 2000, at 11 h 10, the keyboard of Markus Geimer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The LinuxPPC distribution runs fine using the same kernel image, but I > would prefer Debian Another possible trick: install LinuxPPC but save at least one partition for the future / of Debian. The

Re: Debian on PowerMAC G4

2000-03-09 Thread Ethan Benson
On Thu, Mar 09, 2000 at 05:43:06AM -0500, Jason M Varner wrote: > > > Markus Geimer wrote: > > > Hello! > > > > I've tried to install Debian GNU/Linux ("frozen") on an Apple PowerMAC > > G4-450 ("Sawtooth") using BootX 1.2b3 and a special, precompiled kernel > > (2.2.14) from Benjamin Herrenschm

Re: Debian on PowerMAC G4

2000-03-09 Thread Jason M Varner
Markus Geimer wrote: > Hello! > > I've tried to install Debian GNU/Linux ("frozen") on an Apple PowerMAC > G4-450 ("Sawtooth") using BootX 1.2b3 and a special, precompiled kernel > (2.2.14) from Benjamin Herrenschmidt but encountered the following > problem: > > The Linux kernel boots, loads the

Debian on PowerMAC G4

2000-03-09 Thread Markus Geimer
Hello! I've tried to install Debian GNU/Linux ("frozen") on an Apple PowerMAC G4-450 ("Sawtooth") using BootX 1.2b3 and a special, precompiled kernel (2.2.14) from Benjamin Herrenschmidt but encountered the following problem: The Linux kernel boots, loads the ramdisk image and starts the system i