From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <39CDB6CD.62FE8595@PsychiatryKills.com> Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2000 03:09:50 -0500 From: Carl Potter Reply-To: carl@PsychiatryKills.com MIME-Version: 1.0 To: bh40@calva.net CC: mpalczew@u.washington.edu, linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org, elliptical@linuxstart.com Subject: new iBook and booting. Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: Hello Ben, I thought I'd be slick and buy one of the new and improved 466MHz iBooks (NOT Key Lime :) that Apple released a couple of weeks ago ....and put Linux on it. Well I've studied and searched my hiney off over the past week and for the life of me I just can't get YDL or LinuxPPC 2K to boot when 'append = "video=atyXXX"' is used (I've tried both atyfb and aty128fb). I'm getting very close to being certain that it's the newness of my iBook that's stopping me. I have broken down and decided to bother you with what might be a valid issue with the new iBooks. Here's some info on the factors involved: Yaboot version 0.8 open firmware prompt says: Apple PowerBook2,2 3.3f3 BootROM built on 08/10/00 at 14:42:10 Copyright 1994-2000 Apple Computer, Inc. All Rights Reserved. observed phenomenon when booting: (using either 2.2.17pre20-ben3 or Mike Palczewski's iBook kernel) with append="video=aty(anything)" on either YDL 1.2 or LinuxPPC 2000: Welcome to Linux, kernel 2.2.17pre20-ben3 started at : 0x01000000 linked at : 0xc0000000 frame buffer at : 0x96008000 (phys), 0x96008000 (log) MSR : 0x00003030 HID0 : 0xc010c0a4 ICTC : 0x00000000 booting... device tree used 37444 bytes Total memory = 64MB; using 256kB for hash table (at c02c0000) Linux version 2.2.17pre20-ben3 (benh@sawtooth.wanadoo.fr) (gcc version 2.95.3 19991030 (prerelease/franzo/20000625)) #2 Wed Sep 6 01:14:01 CEST 2000 PCI bus 0 controlled by pci at f0000000 PCI bus 0 controlled by pci at f2000000 PCI bus 0 controlled by pci at f4000000 Uni-N revision: 8, KeyLargo revision: 3 Registered 1 features controllers(s) PMU driver initialized for Core99 pmac nvram is core99: 1 PowerMac using OpenPIC irq controller OpenPIC Version 1.2 (4 CPUs and 64 IRQ sources) at 80040000 GMT Delta read from XPRAM: -300 minutes, DST: on via_calibrate_decr: decrementer_count = 166440 (998641 ticks) Console: colour dummy device 80x25 This is the point where the screen freezes, leaving the above message perfectly readable, yet the kernel continues to boot normally and mounts the drive. I then have to blind-type my username, password, and issue a "shutdown -r now". Any light you might shed on this would be very appreciated. I think Linux on PPC is great stuff and I thank you for making possible what we can already do with it. Take care, Carl Potter ** Sent via the linuxppc-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/