Re: passing kernel options [was Re: problem booting from sda...]

2000-10-07 Thread Ethan Benson
On Sat, Oct 07, 2000 at 08:56:23PM -0700, Indraneel Majumdar wrote: > And one more thing: > How do I pass options to the kernel? Now quik doesn't show me any > "LILO boot:" prompt for 30 seconds. The penguin is enabled by default and > I miss the initial boot messages as well as any prompts which

passing kernel options [was Re: problem booting from sda...]

2000-10-07 Thread Indraneel Majumdar
And one more thing: How do I pass options to the kernel? Now quik doesn't show me any "LILO boot:" prompt for 30 seconds. The penguin is enabled by default and I miss the initial boot messages as well as any prompts which might have been there. Any settings to be make in quik.conf for prompt to ap

Re: problem booting from sda during installation

2000-10-07 Thread Indraneel Majumdar
Hi, bothering you again, hope you won't mind. My mouse is really not working. Means gpm too is not working, not just a problem with buttons, the cursor in text mode does not show up and cursor in X shows up but doesn't move. I'm back to the days when the SiS6215C card was just launched (for the PC

Re: Mac & SuSE & Debian

2000-10-07 Thread Olaf Hering
On Sat, Oct 07, Bernd Kulawik wrote: > Does anybody know why it is so horrible to use Linux on that G3 at all or > had the same problems and fixed them? If it fails to install rpms its a good sign that you have either broken ram or you run that 2.2.14 kernel with a buggy ide driver. Get a newer

Mac & SuSE & Debian

2000-10-07 Thread Bernd Kulawik
Hello everybody, I have a Mac G§ Blue&White and want to install Debian as well as SuSE for PPC on it. I'm using SuSE for a long time on a x86 Laptop (Toshiba) and everything works fine there, but I am completely new to Linux on PPC and Debian too ;-) First, I "partitioned" the hard disk with