Hardware :: Debian/ubunt Based LiveCD's That Boot Ok On IMac 27"?

Oct 20, 2010

I have a 27 inch iMac with ATI Radeon HD 4670, and 8GB of Ram. When I try to boot a 64 bit Linux Mint LiveCD, I get a black screen as soon as the X server loads. Are there any, up to date, 64 bit debian/ubunt based liveCD's, That work ob my hardware? In general, what distribution works the best with Apple Hardware?

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Ubuntu Installation :: LiveCD Of 9.04 Won't Boot On IMac But Md5 Fine

Sep 17, 2010

Trying a LiveCD of 9.04 and it wont boot on iMac 8,1 with Intel CoreDuo2. Using rEFIt or not doesn't help, boot to cd gives a black screen with overlength cursor and takes no keyboard input (CAPS light wont even come on). No splash screen or chance to get a prompt. md5 check of cd against iso file using dd is fine and matches published md5. Tried alternative (text) cd iso and same story. Tried Bootcamp for the initial partitioning and no difference. Mac installation cd boots fine as does OSX, burned cd from multiple machines and no joy. Graphics is an ATI Radeon HD2400. Mac running OSX 10.5.8

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Mar 26, 2010

in an attempt to demonstrate just how compatible our college Macs are (please hold the tomatoes) I'm trying to install Ubuntu Karmic alongside Mac OS X Leopard and Windows XP Pro SP2. The problem is, I hold down 'C' to boot from the CD, and all I get is a black screen with a flashing DOS-style cursor. If I boot it without holding C, it works just fine, booting into either Mac or Windows (whichever I specified).This is understandably irritating, and I'm trying to figure out the source of the problem.

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Apr 27, 2015

I initially installed Debian 8 onto my iMac G5 (with KDE), and it would boot to a black screen. I then tried again, and reformatted+reinstalled with only "Standard system utilities", "Print server", and "SSH server".The boot hangs before I get to a log-in prompt. Please see the attached log files I pulled off by booting from the rescue CD option. (I got an error when attaching the log files, so I used tinyupload to upload the files.URL....

Here's some of "syslog"
Code: Select allApr 27 17:37:45 iMacG5 systemd[1]: Started System Logging Service.
Apr 27 17:37:45 iMacG5 kernel: [   13.137638] Unable to handle kernel paging request for data at address 0x00000008
Apr 27 17:37:45 iMacG5 kernel: [   13.137645] Faulting instruction address: 0xd000000002314488
Apr 27 17:37:45 iMacG5 kernel: [   13.137654] Oops: Kernel access of bad area, sig: 11 [#1]

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Feb 19, 2015

I have just installed Debian 7.8.0 powerpc on my imac G3 (400Mhz, 256Mb Ram). I had repartitioned the drive with the view of having a dual boot machine, had OS9 installed on partition 1, linux installed on partition 2 and a ext4 data partition and a 1Gb swap partition. After I installed OS9, I ran Debian Installation CD and was successfully installed. Rebooted, got through the on screen text past file system check, then screen went blank. I searched Google and forund that if I ran ctrl+alt+f1 and logged in, then ran lspci, I could get the ID of the graphics. So I did, and:

Code: Select alllspci
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0000:00:10 Display Controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI Rage 128 RL/VR AGP

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Ubuntu Installation :: Creating A Bootable USB Image Based On A Running System (NOT LiveCD)

Sep 2, 2010

I have a system built and running in exactly the basic configuration I want, with my recompiled kernel, extra packages, special drivers, everything works, life is good. What I want to do is take this exact setup and create an image I can copy onto a bootable USB stick. Is there a way to essentially take the contents of my hard drive and copy that onto a USB stick and then boot directly from that? The use case behind this is that I am building an embedded system of which I may have hundreds of boxes with identical hardware and software configurations. Instead of hard drives, I am going to use USB sticks for cost efficiency and maintenance. My idea is that when it's time to upgrade, I could just image a hundred new sticks and go out and swap them.

My issue is that a standard LiveCD install gets me maybe 25% of the way to a finished system. I need to recompile the kernel for realtime support with my CPU, add some fidgety drivers for some specific hardware, and install a whole bunch of additional packages. I suppose I could create a makefile(s) to replicate all the manual steps of the buildout but that seems like a lot of unnecessary complexity IF I can just image that running system as it is.

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May 8, 2011

Encounter errors of files with "missing LSB tag and overrides". Looking up the recommended website, I found the following instructions.

insserv: warning: script 'X' missing LSB tags and overrides

The /etc/init.d/X script is lacking the LSB fields. Adding them to the script header or as a override file in /etc/insserv/overrides/X would solve it.

But where to get the LSB field? There is a list of known files but those giving problems are not among them.

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Jan 17, 2016

How to boot debian on an RK3288 based device (that isn't a chromebook?). Been trying to do so myself, but to no avail.

The closest match to my device is this one in the sense that it uses the same SoC - an RK3288. However my device is not a chromebook; instead it is called an "RKM MK902II". Unfortunately I cannot find any information on how to boot this device (it does have a micro sd card slot it can boot from, though I'm guessing it needs some sort of bootloader to be written onto a micro sd card in a specific way, but how!).

Interestingly the device I have is running some sort of version of ubuntu. Though how it boots it is an absolute mystery!

I've tried searching around on the 'net for a while now and apart from a script and a few "distros" distributed as image files, I can't really find anything at all. Looking for info about this device or RK3288 chipset?

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Jun 7, 2010

I notice that on DistroWatch, the descriptions include "debian based", "arch based", etc. For the newbie, is there any practical difference between the different bases, or is it a Coke vs Pepsi type question?

Is a distro based on Debian say, easier for a newbie to learn or work with than say one that is FreeBSD based?

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Ubuntu Networking :: Getting Wireless To Work On Ubunt 9.10 Server?

Mar 25, 2010

at the moment I run the code;

Code:
sudo ifconfig [interface] down
sudo dhclient -r [interface]
sudo ifconfig [interface] up
sudo iwconfig [interface] essid ESSID_IN_QUOTES
sudo iwconfig [interface] mode Managed
sudo dhclient [interface]

and this gets my network going fine Could someone let me know how to set up /etc/network/interfaces to get it running on startup

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Feb 2, 2011

what distro should i use, rpm based or debian based?

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Aug 14, 2009

I'm trying to create a CentOS based liveCD that mounts a NFS share and executes one script there. The NFS never mounts altough while logged I can mount it with the very same command that I use in the KS.

In the %post I have :

%post --log=/tmp/post.log --erroronfail
mkdir /mnt/nfs
mount -o nolock 10.23.1.1:/csc/RemoteHome /mnt/nfs

I added the --log in order to debug, but nothing is written in /tmp/post.log. I tried redirection on the mount command with >> /tmp/debug.log but this is not written. Maybe during the post sequence /tmp is RO ? Anyway, I tried with ifup lo, service portmap start in the %post, but doesnt change (I even have a service : command not found in the live cd creator output).

Here is the remainder of the KS :
lang en_US.UTF-8
keyboard us
timezone US/Eastern

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Jan 6, 2010

I'm happy to announce Linvo 2009.1 rc6. It's a full-featured Linux distribution with a lot of applications by default, including an office suite (OpenOffice.org extended with plugins), a good internet browser (Firefox extended with plugins), a music player that supports music collection and a lot more - Exaile, a video player, and all the available codecs. It can open all types of file formats. It's a LiveCD, which means that you can test it without installing and after this optionally install it - it has a nice easy graphical installer.

It's the first Slackware-based LiveCD distribution with GNOME by default. It includes NetworkManager and initng in place of sysvinit. It also features accessibility tools. It is also the first release with the innovative portable applications system. This allows you to download application from the site (modules section), place it where you like, and use it. It's just a single file, no directories. You can also use this application without installing it, directly from the internet. However, after this, the speed of the application is limited by the speed of your connection, of course. Check out the "Applications" section on the website.

Besides this, you can install software with the apt-get-like system "slapt-get" and it's graphical front-end: GSlapt. It also contains src2pkg and sbopkg in case you want to compile something from source or existing SlackBuild Depfinder is included to find dependencies of packages. Click here for a guide on how to use those. I also managed to put development tools in there, like GCC, G++, svn, cvs, so on... This is a release candidate, and despite that it's OK for using. It has a bit more things to do until the release (like language selection on the boot menu), but I decided that it's important to put it here for testing.

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Ubuntu / Apple :: IMac G3 Will Not Boot From Live CD?

Feb 21, 2010

I can't install any flavour of Ubuntu 9.10 onto my new iMac G3. Here are its specs:

iMac G3 New World (Indigo)
350MHz G3 Processor
192MB RAM
6GB Hard Drive
Slot Loader (CD only - not DVD)
Mac OS 10.3 Panther

The drive does work - I've played music from CDs on it, and it does allow me to view PDF files stored on data CDs. I can even view the Ubuntu CD through the Finder on the desktop. It just really doesn't want to boot from the CD.

I've tried multiple Linux distributions (all of them PPC compatible).

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Mar 25, 2010

I want to install Ubuntu on a PPC iMac.It is running 10.2.8.I'm looking for a ppc version of Ubuntu that will fit on a CD-R, the iMac has no DVD reader.Where can I find this?Also, I'm not sure how to get the iMac to boot from disc. It doesn't seem to respond to holding 'c'. Also, when I hold 'option' during boot up it shows me a screen with a picture of a lock, it wants me to fill in a password, but my user's password won't work.

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Aug 15, 2010

I presently have an iMac G4/700Mhz machine I want to try Ubuntu on, but I cannot get it to boot using the 10.04 PPC Live CD. I get to the boot prompt, and no matter what I type, the system halts when the screen clears and comes up, and each time it does so, it comes up different colors (I've seen green, red, yellow, and grey so far). I've tried the special boot arguments that apply to this system when you press the TAB key, and all of them end the same way, so I'm at a wee bit of a loss here.

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Sep 18, 2010

I'm trying to boot ubuntu10.4 live CD on my new iMac (iMac 11,2, core i3). The screen goes black at start of boot and stays black. The CD stops reading after a few minutes and that's that. Just to see what else doesn't work I tried ubuntu10.10 beta live DVD. That boots the splash screen - already better than 10.4 - and gives the language menu and the boot option. The boot starts and some text scrolls up the screen quickly. Then the screen goes black, etc. Tried to set boot option vga=771 - no good. Boot option nomodeset - no good. Booting suse11.3 live CD also gives scrolling text and a black screen. All these discs worked on my old Mac Mini Solo (2006). Looks like something's different about booting a live CD on the new iMacs. Anyone else trying this?

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Ubuntu / Apple :: Boot Camp On IMac?

Feb 20, 2011

A while back, I used boot camp to dual boot OSX and Ubuntu on my iMac. It was fine, worked well - but I eventually took the partition off because there was some software corruption in OSX. I reinstalled OS X and now I want to dual boot Ubuntu. I can't! I created the partition - like last time, in Boot Camp, and I installed Ubuntu - I made sure to keep Grub on the Ubuntu partition only. But when I go to reboot (you know, after it finishes installing) I press option/alt and the Ubuntu partition does not show, only the Mac partition. Why is this?

ed: One thing that I remember is that I formatted the Ubuntu partition ext4 - I don't recall whether or not I used ext3 before, and do not know if that makes a difference.

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Sep 28, 2010

What is the best guide to use for me to install Ubuntu 10.04 on my iMac so that I can dual boot into either Ubuntu or OS 10.6.4?

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Apr 3, 2011

I have the following "setup:"

iMac (no internal drive/dead) --------- (Firewire) ------- [[MAC OS X]]
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I routinely use the firewire drive to boot MAC OS X.However, I would like to boot from the linux partition of the USB drive. This linux partition had linux installed on it from a live cd, and during that process, I told the installer to install GRUB on the usb drive (which happened to be /dev/sdd).My question is, how do I get this disk to show up during the iMac option-boot? Currently, only the firewire MAC OS X option shows up. I have read about rEFIT, but that appears to install it to the Mac OS X disk (would that still work?)...Also mentioned was installing rEFIT to the internal EFI system partition, but I don't know if that is wise.

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Ubuntu / Apple :: Lucid Will Not Boot After Install (iMac G4)

May 22, 2010

I installed Lucid PPC on a G4 iMac (lamp-style, 800 mhz) using the netinstall mini cd. The install environment booted and installed a base system without any problems. However, when trying to boot into the installed system, I get about a second of text after the yaboot screen, then darkness, then a full screen of bright red. Note that X is not installed, so the red screen is not an xorg problem. I've tried booting with "Linux nosplash video=ofonly", and "Linux single" but the problem occurs in both cases. I can use rescue mode on the cd and chroot into my system on the hard drive, but I'm not sure what steps to take from that point. It does seem to be a functional system when I'm chrooted, I can use apt etc.I don't want to give up on this installation and install karmic yet,

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Apr 8, 2011

I'm installing Ubuntu 10.04 on a 700mHz "lamp" iMac for a home school. I managed to install Ubuntu 10.04 via the alternate iso, but when it boots up it only goes as far as a black screen with "Ubuntu" in white lettering above four dots of which only three are colored red before it stalls. I just can't trick 10.04 to booting up past three red dots.

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Apr 28, 2011

I tried to boot live Ubuntu (using 11.04 daily build) and 10.04 on my G4 iMac (the so-called iLamp) 15" but it freezed on boot. I tried using both the "live" and the "live video=ofony" options with no difference.The result is always a white or blank screen (randomly). With 10.04 I obtained a little bit different result: a yellow screen!These are the main characteristics of my iMac (obtained with the system profiler):

PowerMac 4.2
CPU PPC G4 700MHz
576MB Ram

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Mar 18, 2010

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Dec 30, 2010

i do software (learn keyboard) for blind people. I selected ubuntu and festival and TTS. Please i NEED (mandatory for disabled people) live cd what can be inserted into cdrom and everything is done - automatic boot, settings done, software is on start-up... created own distribution, programed software, done settings, but what kills me is : How i can run AUTOMATIC (without asking, no enter) boot from CD-ROOM. Now CD asking :

- 1) What language want you (here is only czech) - need ENTER (killer for disabled people)
- 2) Boot from CD or hdd - need ENTER (killer no. 2 for disabeld people)
- after 2) I m ok, i can handle it myself, works.

I edited file in isolinux menu.lst etc - I can edit text but i do not know how run defalut choice automaticly. timout 0 does not work I spent a lot of hours reading tutorials grub/isolinux and have nothing ...

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Nov 18, 2010

I've been installing Linux Mint with OSX on a bunch of iMacs, and its been working perfectly excpet for one of the iMacs. The screen will just go black when I boot from a live CD, but I can hear the login sound play. It's strange because all of the other iMac's run the live CD just fine. What could the problem be? I don't know what I can do to troubleshoot this problem.

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Apr 2, 2010

Is it possible to create a boot CD to boot external volumes on an Apple iMac 7.1 (which has an older firmware version and cannot boot external disks, unlike the MacBook Pro 5.1 which can do it, at least with grub-legacy which is all I'll ever use until EFI boot becomes available). There is some promising stuff on www.pendrivelinux.com, and I'll try it, but the instructions are for Windows, and I am not sure how to translate the menu.lst entry to linux (I suppose it would have to be entered in the "automagic" section). Of course I don't want to create a bootable flash drive but to use my external volumes that already boot on the MacBook Pro without altering them, except for installing the ATI video driver (but I have no problem booting in low graphics mode).

Until karmic there was a trick to make the iMac mistake the external volume for an internal one (the root partition had to have the same UUID as the internal root partition), but this does not seem to work for lucid. Anyway this UUID trick is dirty and causes problems when you want to edit the internal partition (which is the point of the external boot - you get a customized maintenance environment that boots much faster than the CD).

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Feb 26, 2011

i have downgraded from Ubuntu 10.10 to Ubuntu 10.04. I've had some bumps along the way and finally was able to install 10.04 successfully. Right now, my computer will not boot from the HDD and will only boot from the USB drive that the LiveCD is on. When I reorganize to set HDD as primary boot, i get:id-laptop login:d-laptop password:and I can put that in but then it just gives me a command line that ends with ~$ i believe. How do I get it to boot from the HDD instead of from the USB without running into this problem?

If I resequence the boot to HDD as number two, it will juts go into the LiveCD mode. Am I supposed to reinstall 10.04 again? I know 10.04 was successfully installed because it said it was and it needed to restart so i hit the restart button. It also had my old desktop picture there and all my files AND i checked the system info before restarting (it confirmed that lucid lynx was running).

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Apr 10, 2010

I have Lenny installed on an Imac G4, running command line only. It's primary purpose will be SSH.

I would like to know how I can turn off the screen when I'm not using it. It will be left on running other things for periods of time, and I want to save power. (and the screen)

Since the screen is built-in, it might have a similar solution to what I would do with a laptop. On the other hand, there are no shortcut keys to dim the screen like on a laptop.

Because it is command line mode only, I will need to know what commands to use to dim or shut off the screen, or to configure an auto-off time limit.

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Feb 17, 2011

I'm trying to get my iMac G3 on the internet. I'm running Lenny. I have two options: I could (ideally) get the ethernet to work, or else I could use my phone (Palm Pre Plus) as a modem, which I've done under Ubuntu (the GNOME applet makes it a snap, but I can't figure out what it's doing on the command-line side of things).

Relevant line from lspci:
ryan@dinosaur:~$ lspci
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0002:20:0f.0 Ethernet controller: Apple Computer Inc. UniNorth GMAC (Sun GEM) (rev ff)

Relevant line from lsusb:
ryan@dinosaur:~$ lsusb
Bus 002 Device 005: ID 0830:0101 Palm, Inc.
...

ifconfig lists only the local loopback and nothing else.I've googled and googled and googled for drivers but can't seem to find any--same for getting the Pre to work as a modem. Like I said, I can get the Pre working flawlessly under Ubuntu but I can't find no matter how much I search the proper way to connect it using Linux.

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