I'm trying to install Ubuntu Server 10.04 on a PPC G4 PowerMac.
It took a while, but finally I managed to get through the installation.
Unfortunately, after choosing Ubuntu from the yaboot menu at startup, it takes a moment and then displays a kernel panic about not founding /sbin/init .
Well, /sbin/init is there for sure (I've checked again, using the CD).
I have a fresh install of Lucid on my PowerMac G4 Desktop (PowerMac3,6) / 867MHz. Right now I'm stuck with a resolution of 800x600. From what I have read, I know I need an xorg.conf file (install doesn't create one). I've looked around for a working one - and tried creating my own with no luck. I gather the following information is needed:
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*-display
description: VGA compatible controller
product: NV17 [GeForce4 MX 420]
vendor: nVidia Corporation
physical id: 10
bus info: pci@0000:00:10.0
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a powermac G4 with radeon 9000 RV250 in ubuntu 10.04 ppc i just want the graphic work better
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1.Will Open Firmware allow Target Disk Mode (like OS X) to boot from firewire drives using Linux?
2.What applications / operating systems are best with 64 bit PowerPC machines?
3.Is network administration / simple file hosting / and network security straightforward with Linux (OpenSUSE)?
4.Is network backup software native / available to Linux distros?
5.Does OpenSUSE or any other Linux OS work well with Dual Processors? Native Support?
I will have tons of questions. I use OpenSUSE on a laptop and I seem to like it fairly well.It is not UBUNTU, and that's a good thing.I like how OpenSUSE feels.I've never used Linux on a PowerPC, but I use several Macintosh G4 and G5 machines.
I have sucessfully installed Debian 8 stable onto a powermac G5 with and Nvidia FX5200 graphics card, and got the graphics up and running using the nouveau.modeset=0 kernel parameter. However, now the screen is showing completely messed up graphics. The kernel parameters that I have set are: nouveau.modeset=0 and video=TV-1:d.
I've now tried other Desktop environments and they too are messed up. Even window maker is messed up.
I have recently tried to install Debian 6 on a PowerMac G5 that we had lying around. The system installs fine and will boot to a command line, but when the installation was complete and X tried to start (using the default configuration--which I believe specified the 'nouveau' driver) the screen went completely blank and no amount of button-pushing could get me back to even a tty. I did here the standard noise that gdm3 makes when the login window is ready, so this is solely a display issue. Plus, [Ctrl]-[Alt]-[F1] followed by [Ctrl]-[Alt]-[Delete] did reboot cleanly so the system didn't hang. I booted from the CD into recovery mode and switched the default X driver to vesa (I had to install it), which, I understand, is supposed to work for everyone. However, nothing worked! I did get one step better: the vesa driver brought me back to the terminal when it crashed, instead of the nouveau's bad habit of stopping the display from working completely. I haven't got the full log files because it would be a pain to mail them to a computer with a working web browser (although I will if needed), but I did see the following messages in the output:
(II) VESA(0): initializing int10
( followed by a backtrace )
Bus error at address 0xf79fd000
Fatal server error: Caught signal 7 (Bus error). Server aborting
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I told it to use /dev/sda3 and it immediately failed. I'm still in the installer. Can anyone suggest a solution?
Here are my partitions on sda:
...from the shell in the installer, there is no grub.cfg in /target/boot/grub.
When I run it live, I see KDE4. When I install it off the same disk, it installs Gnome. I can't figure out how to install KDE4. I had no luck with apt-get install kde4 (E: Couldn't find package kde4), no luck with aptitude, no luck with Synaptic (The following packages have unresolved dependencis kdebase-runtime-bin-kde4).
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The first problem:
Fatal errors encountered installing thermal control. All the windfarm modules failed, but judging by the fact the mac doesn't sound like a jet engine, thermal control /is/ working.
The second problem:
After this, it brings up the splash screen & then the console goes dead. No keyboard, no display, no nothing; it looks like the system has hung. But... SSH is working. The system is up and as responsive as it should be!
I've tried adding video=ofonly to yaboot.conf and zapping the pram, but it made no change.
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When I log out I can log back in by typing in my password. However, when I restart the computer it seems that bluetooth is not loaded yet and I cannot enter my password. So I have to log in using my wired keyboard, and then disconnect & re-connect to my wireless keyboard using blueman before I am able to use the wireless keyboard.
Is there any way that I can already auto-load bluetooth and connect to my keyboard before I log in?
recently I to come the Ubuntu 9.10 disk install and desire to do a clean in my macbook air installation problem is that this computer does not have a reader cd or DVD....
I wonder if there is any way to do the installation through a usb or I have to get an external reader for this installation, or if it is more easy install again my mac os x to partition the disk and do a dual boot
These are my laptop specifications:
MacBook Air (Rev A), 80 gb hd, 2 gb ram, graphics intel, one usb, one firewire
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I am trying to put ubuntu an old imac with osx that a former customer gave me. I am not extremely well versed in Apple products but have been doing research intoy current problem. I have tried just putting in the ubuntu shipit disc I have, along with downloading and burning 9.10 text based and have not been able to get it to install. I have tried holding 'c' when rebooting, holding 'option' while rebooting it only gives me the choice of booting from osx), and holding 'control, option, apple, delete' as well to no avail. I then tried downloading Virtualbox and mounting the dmg and found out that my imac is not letting me mount any dmg's at all. Any guidance? Can I take out the harddrive and hook it as a slave to my pc and somehow install ubuntu that way and put it back in the imac? All I want is for the imac to be useful again as I was trying to make it into a stand alone dvd player.
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View 9 Replies View Relatedi have a ppc G4 with 10gb hdd and 512 ram and 350 processor. i have tried to install 6.10 alternate ubuntu package, that started to install but stalled at 6% installing software. i am now trying out 9.10 ppc alternate ubuntu package. it is going thro the install and so far so good, but again it stalls at adding software, it went to retrieve 858 files and stopped around 620.
ok so i re did the software install and it found all 858 files but then it reported it failed .... i carried on with the install but skipping the software install section, it has now completed whatever it was doing, rebooted and left me at a command prompt to login, which i can do ok.
I'm trying to install ubuntu on an old iBook G4. I have two cds (9.10 (not PPC specific) and 8.04.1 (the PPC specific version)) along with the G4 install cds. I've tried booting while holding down C, and I've tried to boot holding down option. When the boot menu comes up it does not recognize either one. I've also reset the PRAM.I've read a lot of guides, and look through this very thoroughly. I don't even want to dual boot, just Ubuntu.
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It starts fine the installation process, and I want to have only Ubuntu on this machine so I erased all the mac partitions and create 3 new partitions
/ = root
swap
and /home
Everything goes well until I get the message that there is not a partition called Apple_bootstrap and I get stuck there.