Re: g5 install problem

2010-08-04 Thread gomaaz
Am 31.05.10 09:40, schrieb Ron Brooks: Hi, I joined this group hoping for a solution so here's the problem. I have a Powermac G5 1.6 single processor that I've tried many times to install Debian. The install goes fine...but on reboot up comes the black bootstrap screen which asks if I want to boo

Re: g5 install problem

2010-05-31 Thread Gary
did you install stable or testing? I've not encountered problems with stable on the G5 but testing is still a work in progress. as mentioned before, be sure to choose the 64-bit version. -Gary -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". T

Re: g5 install problem

2010-05-31 Thread Rick Thomas
On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 9:34 AM, Ron Brooks wrote: Hi, I joined this group hoping for a solution so here's the problem. I have a Powermac G5 1.6 single processor that I've tried many times to install Debian. The install goes fine...but on reboot up comes the black bootstrap screen which ask

Re: g5 install problem

2010-05-31 Thread nello martuscielli
On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 9:34 AM, Ron Brooks wrote: > Hi, I joined this group hoping for a solution so here's the problem. I > have a Powermac G5 1.6 single processor that I've tried many times to > install Debian. The install goes fine...but on reboot up comes the > black bootstrap screen which as

g5 install problem

2010-05-31 Thread Ron Brooks
Hi, I joined this group hoping for a solution so here's the problem. I have a Powermac G5 1.6 single processor that I've tried many times to install Debian. The install goes fine...but on reboot up comes the black bootstrap screen which asks if I want to boot from the hd or cd. I choose hd but it j

Re: G5 install problem - no network

2005-11-09 Thread Ken Moffat
On Thu, 10 Nov 2005, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: dmesg has PHY ID: 2060d2, addr: 0 and eth0: Found Generic MII PHY That means your kernel is too old :) You need up to date sungem support for the Vesta PHY chip Ben. Oh well, so much for a network install. Thanks for clarifying the

Re: G5 install problem - no network

2005-11-09 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
> dmesg has > PHY ID: 2060d2, addr: 0 > and > eth0: Found Generic MII PHY That means your kernel is too old :) You need up to date sungem support for the Vesta PHY chip Ben. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: G5 install problem - no network

2005-11-09 Thread Ken Moffat
On Thu, 10 Nov 2005, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: The sungem module is loaded. I'm more than a little puzzled - the box works adequately in osx (increased and tested memory yesterday, partitioned, reinstalled panther, upgraded to tiger) but it just doesn't want to network with linux. You

Re: G5 install problem - no network

2005-11-09 Thread Benjamin Herrenschmidt
> The sungem module is loaded. I'm more than a little puzzled - the box > works adequately in osx (increased and tested memory yesterday, > partitioned, reinstalled panther, upgraded to tiger) but it just doesn't > want to network with linux. You may need updated code to deal with the PHY c

G5 install problem - no network

2005-11-09 Thread Ken Moffat
Hi, I've got myself a refurb 1.8 GHz single processor powermac, according to /proc/cpuinfo this is a PPC970FX PowerMac9,1 detected as 337 (PowerMac G5). This is the second version, with the cheaper motherboard. My problem is that the nic doesn't seem to work in linux (although osx gets a