On Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 11:11:06PM +0100, Ulrich Teichert wrote:

Hi,

quoted

Delete the "console=tty0", so you end up with:

Linux/PPC load: console=ttyS0,9600 root=/dev/ram

and try again!

[del]

Right, then the installer knows what to do. I think this should go into
the Debian installation docs, there are a lot of boxes with graphic cards
out which are not supported by Linux.

Err, it should default to vga tedxt mode if the graphic card fbdev is not
builtin, at least it does it here.

But the low level SCSI-driver is missing in this image, or any low level
SCSI drivers for that matter. There are only the high level modules there,
like sd_mod.ko and sr_mod.ko:

Sure, these should be loaded through the network. Try the
powerpc/cdrom/vmlinuz-prep.initrd for images with scsi modules included.

Nov 30 00:06:32 hw-detect: Using discover version 1.
Nov 30 00:06:35 hw-detect: Detecting hardware...
Nov 30 00:06:36 hw-detect: Missing module 'sym53c8xx'.
Nov 30 00:06:36 hw-detect: Missing module 'usb-storage'.
Nov 30 00:06:36 hw-detect: Missing module 'ide-mod'.
Nov 30 00:06:36 hw-detect: Missing module 'ide-probe-mod'.
Nov 30 00:06:36 hw-detect: Missing module 'ide-detect'.
Nov 30 00:06:36 hw-detect: Missing module 'ide-generic'.
Nov 30 00:06:37 hw-detect: Missing module 'ide-floppy'.
--More-- (57% of 44385 bytes)                             Nov 30 00:06:37 hw-detect: Missing module 'ide-disk'.
Nov 30 00:06:37 hw-detect: Missing module 'isofs'.
Nov 30 00:06:37 hw-detect: Loading modules...
Nov 30 00:06:37 hw-detect: Detected module 'pcnet32' for 'Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] 79c970 [PCnet32 LANCE]'
Nov 30 00:06:37 hw-detect: Trying to load module 'pcnet32'
Nov 30 00:06:37 kernel: pcnet32.c:v1.30i 06.28.2004 tsbogend@alpha.franken.de
Nov 30 00:06:37 kernel: PCI: Enabling device 0000:00:0c.0 (0000 -> 0003)
Nov 30 00:06:37 kernel: pcnet32: PCnet/PCI II 79C970A at 0x1020, 00 06 29 2e 98 9d assigned IRQ 22.
Nov 30 00:06:37 kernel: divert: allocating divert_blk for eth0
Nov 30 00:06:37 kernel: eth0: registered as PCnet/PCI II 79C970A
Nov 30 00:06:37 kernel: pcnet32: 1 cards_found.
Nov 30 00:06:38 hw-detect: Detected module 'floppy' for 'Linux Floppy'
Nov 30 00:06:38 hw-detect: Trying to load module 'floppy'
Nov 30 00:06:38 kernel: inserting floppy driver for 2.6.8-powerpc
Nov 30 00:06:38 kernel: Using anticipatory io scheduler
Nov 30 00:06:38 kernel: Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 2.88M
Nov 30 00:06:38 kernel: FDC 0 is a National Semiconductor PC87306
Nov 30 00:06:38 hw-detect: Detected module 'ide-cd' for 'Linux ATAPI CD-ROM'
Nov 30 00:06:38 hw-detect: Trying to load module 'ide-cd'
Nov 30 00:06:39 kernel: Linux Kernel Card Services
Nov 30 00:06:39 kernel:   options:  [pci] [cardbus] [pm]
Nov 30 00:06:39 hw-detect: Starting PCMCIA services: using yenta_socket instead of i82365
Nov 30 00:06:39 hw-detect: cardmgr[1070]: no sockets found!
Nov 30 00:06:39 cardmgr[1070]: no sockets found!
Nov 30 00:06:39 hw-detect: done.
Nov 30 00:06:39 hw-detect: Detected discover version 1, installing discover1.
Nov 30 00:06:39 hw-detect: Detected hotplug support, installing hotplug.
Nov 30 00:06:40 hw-detect: Missing modules 'sym53c8xx (Symbios Logic Inc. / NCR 53c825), usb-storage (USB storage), ide-mod (Linux IDE driver), ide-probe-mod (Linux IDE probe driver), ide-detect (Linux IDE detection), ide-generic (Linux IDE support), ide-floppy (Linux IDE floppy), ide-disk (Linux ATA DISK), isofs (Linux ISO 9660 filesystem)

/lib/modules/2.6.8-powerpc/kernel/drivers/scsi # ls
scsi_mod.ko  sd_mod.ko    sr_mod.ko

So, either this is the wrong image (I've taken the same as Daniel mentioned
in one of his mails: http://debian.yorku.ca/debian/dists/testing/main/installer-powerpc/current/images/powerpc/netboot/vmlinuz-prep.initrd),
or it's missing some vital modules.

Notice, the canonical address for the daily builds is : 

  http://people.debian.org/~luther/d-i/images/daily

Friendly,

Sven Luther