Re: powerbook titanium

[Colin Walters <walters@cis.ohio-state.edu>]

James Maitland Chapman <jmc00u@cs.nott.ac.uk> writes:

> I have a 500MHz titanium with 512Mb RAM.
>
>
> I am intending to install base from powerpc binary-1 potato, and
>then upgrade to unstable.
>
> With the cd in the drive i booted the machine pressing 'c' whilst it
> boots, all I get is a white screen and nothing happens...

Just to make this explicit, hold down Command-Option-o-f to get into
Open Firmware, then type:

boot cd:\yaboot

at the prompt.  This will take you to the yaboot prompt.  At that,
type:

debian video=ofonly

Passing the "video=ofonly" option to the kernel is the critical part.

This should all be in the archives, by the way.