Subject: Re: newbie installation probs
From: Keary Suska (hierophant@pcisys.net)
Date: Mon Nov 19 2001 - 17:00:11 MST
Yes, I have. The problem is the video parameters passed to the kernel on
boot. Toward the bottom of the screen of the bootx/miboot control panel is a
list of options. I believe you can tab to those options and change them at
boot time. IIRC, you want "video" set to "atyfb" and "other" set to
"video=ofonly". That should get the installer to be visible. After
installation you might still have video problems, so you may have to tinker
with the bootx configuration file (I think it may be yaboot.conf for miboot,
but don't quote me on that) to get video to work. And good luck--getting
video to work on PPC distros is the biggest pain.
Keary Suska
Esoteritech, Inc.
"Leveraging Open Source for a better Internet"
> From: "Luke" <tonkinluke@optusnet.com.au>
> Reply-To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
> Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2001 10:11:28 +0100
> To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
> Subject: newbie installation probs
>
> Hi,
>
> can anyone give me a hand. I'm trying to install YDL 2.0 on my beige G3
> desktop (233/96mb/4gb). I think i've followed the installation docs
> correctly. I've formatted the entire drive, partitioned the drive into a HFS
> drive and 2.5gb's of unallocated memory. Reinstalled the MacOS (8.1) and
> then installed bootx. But when i choose lunix from the bootx control panel
> after restart i get a brief glimpse of white text on a black background
> before the screen goes blank. The CD spins for a while aferwards but that's
> about all that happens.
>
> Has anyone had similar problems with the same Mac ?
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Luke.
>
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