Bug#788384: installation-reports: Dell G5 install - black screen

2018-10-21 Thread Rickyx
Package: installation-reports Followup-For: Bug #788384 Dear Maintainer, the alpha3 installer of debian buster, after a correct system load, leads to a black screen with a fixed underscore, stuck. If, while booting, I add in the grub entry the nomodeset option, the underscore blinks and I can

Bug#245827: marked as done ([powerpc] [20040422] [netinst] G5 install freezes)

2004-07-24 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Your message dated Sun, 25 Jul 2004 05:14:32 +0100 with message-id [EMAIL PROTECTED] and subject line G5 Install has caused the attached Bug report to be marked as done. This means that you claim that the problem has been dealt with. If this is not the case it is now your responsibility to reopen

Re: G5 install?

2004-07-15 Thread Sven Luther
On Sat, Jul 10, 2004 at 09:59:46PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote: On Sat, Jul 10, 2004 at 12:56:06PM -0700, Brad Boyer wrote: It seems bad to me for one of these scripts to be so sure that it can load a particular module, when the rest of the install is pretty careful to allow a user in

Re: G5 install?

2004-07-11 Thread Sven Luther
On Sat, Jul 10, 2004 at 12:56:06PM -0700, Brad Boyer wrote: On Fri, Jul 09, 2004 at 10:26:00PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote: On Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at 12:19:24AM -0700, Brad Boyer wrote: The 20040707 image does seem to fix this specific problem, and it now gets into the installer. It

Re: G5 install?

2004-07-11 Thread Sven Luther
On Sat, Jul 10, 2004 at 09:59:46PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote: On Sat, Jul 10, 2004 at 12:56:06PM -0700, Brad Boyer wrote: It seems bad to me for one of these scripts to be so sure that it can load a particular module, when the rest of the install is pretty careful to allow a user in

Re: G5 install?

2004-07-11 Thread Geert Uytterhoeven
On Sun, 11 Jul 2004, Sven Luther wrote: On Sat, Jul 10, 2004 at 09:59:46PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote: On Sat, Jul 10, 2004 at 12:56:06PM -0700, Brad Boyer wrote: It seems bad to me for one of these scripts to be so sure that it can load a particular module, when the rest of the

Re: G5 install?

2004-07-10 Thread Brad Boyer
On Fri, Jul 09, 2004 at 10:26:00PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote: On Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at 12:19:24AM -0700, Brad Boyer wrote: The 20040707 image does seem to fix this specific problem, and it now gets into the installer. It still locks up later while handling the disks, in the same

Re: G5 install?

2004-07-10 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Sat, Jul 10, 2004 at 12:56:06PM -0700, Brad Boyer wrote: It seems bad to me for one of these scripts to be so sure that it can load a particular module, when the rest of the install is pretty careful to allow a user in expert mode to override module selection. Of course, loading a module

Re: G5 install?

2004-07-10 Thread Joey Hess
Brad Boyer wrote: I found the crash. One of the partman scripts does a modprobe floppy without any way around it. Since all the legacy drivers that poke ISA addresses crash a G5, this module is instant death. I was able to get past this step by removing floppy.o (or floppy.ko with 2.6) before

Re: G5 install?

2004-07-09 Thread Christoph Hellwig
On Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at 12:19:24AM -0700, Brad Boyer wrote: The 20040707 image does seem to fix this specific problem, and it now gets into the installer. It still locks up later while handling the disks, in the same approximate spot that it does when using the 2.4 kernel. I'll see what I can

Re: G5 install?

2004-07-09 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Jul 09, 2004 at 10:26:00PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote: On Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at 12:19:24AM -0700, Brad Boyer wrote: The 20040707 image does seem to fix this specific problem, and it now gets into the installer. It still locks up later while handling the disks, in the same

Bug#245827: G5 Install

2004-04-25 Thread Scott McMahan
Package: installation-reports Debian-installer-version: http://cdimage.debian.org/pub/cdimage-testing/daily/powerpc/20040422/sarge-powerpc-netinst.iso uname -a: Date: 20040424 Method: cd installation Machine: G5 Processor: 2x2.0 PPC 970 Memory: 512 GB Root Device: IDE Root Size/partition table: