Re: 8.0_BETA on Mac Mini G4 with bad CD drive...

[Valery Ushakov <uwe%stderr.spb.ru@localhost>]

On Wed, Aug 16, 2017 at 10:25:24 +0200, Havard Eidnes wrote:

> >> IIRC, if OFW detects that there's no monitor connected to the machine
> >> it will not init the card properly.  To force it, you need to set
> >> boot-command to something like
> >>
> >>   ." hello" cr " screen" output boot
> >
> > That worked nicely on my just-inherited PowerMac G4 which also
> > had this problem.
> 
> However, on one of my Mac Minis this does not work to get me a
> working display, and I suspect something else is at play there.

As I said, there're two completely orthogonal issues.  OFW
initialization (which the above addresses) and radeonfb(4) driver
issues.  Just disable radeonfb for now - the fact that you need the
OFW workaround suggests that you mostly running it headless anyway :)

-uwe