Hi, On Thu, 25 Nov 2004, Sven Luther wrote: > Can you try the > http://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/unstable/main/installer-powerpc/current/images/powerpc/netboot/minimal/2.4/vmlinuz-prep.initrd > > It should not work (the above is oldworld pmac specific), but we will know if > the problem is with the initrd size. It didn't work... but I found out what the problem was. I needed to upgrade the firmware.
Now I can boot the Debian installer image, if I enter root=/dev/ram console=ttyS0,9600 Unfortunately, the pcnet32 driver doesn't work. It detects the network card, but it dhclient doesn't get an answer and if I setup an IP manually, I can't ping the workstation either. With that old 2.4.15 boot disk & debian installer root, the pcnet32 driver does work (at least for pings). I tried the 2.4 vmlinuz-prep.initrd, but it does not seem to support the serial console. At least I can't see anything after the 'now booting the kernel' message. Johannes