Re: Fedora 16 on Power - install problems very early in the process

[Dennis Clarke]

> On Mon, 2011-12-26 at 01:01 -0500, Dennis Clarke wrote:
> > > > Dennis
> > >
> > > At the prompt which answers "linux" when you hit tab (the yaboot
> > > prompt), enter
> > >
> > > linux text
> > >
> > > and try that.
> >
> > Thanks for the help, however, same result. I end up with black on the left of the screen and
> > blue
> > on the right. No text .. no menus, nothing.
> >
> > Wish there was a headless option with a serial port.
> >
> > Dennis
>
> try
> linux vnc
> see:
> http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/16/html/Installation_Guide/VNC_Wh...
>
> I have still some problems with my imac g5 display in X though after
> installation.

good suggestion, tried that and 25 secs into the install the system switches from output of
messages to the console to a black screen with a blue section on the right. Then it just sits
there.

So I figure my system hardware is borked, perhaps.

I download and burn the Debian PPC64 DVD iso and try to install with that. It comes up with
options for install, install64 and expert and expert64. I select expert64 and installation
proceeds smoothly and all in text. No graphics to be seen.

Not sure what's up with the Fedora 16 installer or my system on this dual socket dual core G5 but
getting an installation going is turning out to be too much like work.

Dennis

Fedora 16 on Power - install problems very early in the process

[Louis Lagendijk]

On Mon, 2011-12-26 at 12:57 -0500, Dennis Clarke wrote:
> > On Mon, 2011-12-26 at 01:01 -0500, Dennis Clarke wrote:
> > > > > Dennis
> > > >
> > > > At the prompt which answers "linux" when you hit tab (the yaboot
> > > > prompt), enter
> > > >
> > > > linux text
> > > >
> > > > and try that.
> > >
> > > Thanks for the help, however, same result. I end up with black on the left of the screen and
> > > blue
> > > on the right. No text .. no menus, nothing.
> > >
> > > Wish there was a headless option with a serial port.
> > >
> > > Dennis
> >
> > try
> > linux vnc
> > see:
> > http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/16/html/Installation_Guide/VNC_Wh...
> >
> > I have still some problems with my imac g5 display in X though after
> > installation.
>
> good suggestion, tried that and 25 secs into the install the system switches from output of
> messages to the console to a black screen with a blue section on the right. Then it just sits
> there.
>
> So I figure my system hardware is borked, perhaps.

Try the Fedora 16 beta. That was what I used to install my Imac. I later
upgraded to the Fedora 16 release. The beta kernel worked with the
nomodeset kernel command line option, the release kernel does not work
with it. On the beta kernel I have not been able to get X running, it
kind of works on the release kernel, X works when started with startx.
When I boot into graphical mode, it shows the background on the 640*480
mode and a full screen. The display settings show 2 screens, one unknown
screen. Graphical login is kind of borked: blue with red...
I wish i had some more time to p[lay around a write a decent BZ...
Louis