"Sven" == Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Is there a way to use a rescue kernel (in this case the Gentoo >> kernel booted from a Mac HD using OpenFirmware) to start the >> d-i on the Sarge CD? (My guess is not, but then I'm not very >> familiar with internals of d-i).
Sven> No, the first order of business is to try d-i again, and Sven> fill a installation report about it. Can you please remember Sven> me your state of things, i don't seem to have your older Installation report is at http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=287030 Sven> If the kernel issue is fixed, and d-i is working, then Sven> everything is fine, no ? Can you provide me info on the Sven> exact model that this concerns ? Nope, the kernel in d-i does not boot this G5. John Koskie indicated (in this thread) that he has seen the same problem with newer G5 hardware (him and Paddy de Burca report having used d-i on similar, somewhat older G5 machines with sucess though). /Shyamal