AFAIK the problem lies with the fact that your powertower has oldworld openfirmware...which means yaboot won't work. Dig through the list archives for the instructions on the "quik" method of booting. The latest batch I saw was really good, and should take care of your problem.
As for the G4 upgrade card...I'm not sure if that will even work properly. Anyone have any ideas about that one? Sorry I can't be more help than that. -JM Dean Suhr wrote: > Hi All, > > I am a Mac power user, but at novice at Linux. I have a buddy who is > helping, but he's never set up a PPC. We can't seem to get the hard drive > to be bootable. We followed the new world YaBoot procedure to no avail. I > have the hard disk fully devoted to Linux, with the Apple_Bootstrap as the > first partition - it is not mounted. > > I was unable to validate that my hardware is fully compatible - at this > point I'm wondering if this might be the problem. Power Computing > PowerTower Pro with a Newer Tech MaxPower G4 upgrade. The system boots off > of the install floppies and the install goes fine up to the hard disk boot > step. > > Two other problems - apparently it is not possible to make a boot floppy > from this configuration, > > I could reinstall the 604 processor card in the machine. My application is > low hit Web sites, FTP, DNS, & EMAIL servers, and Mac emulation to run > LetterRip Pro, a list server that I have too much effort invested into to > switch folks at this juncture to a Linux alternative. > > Any help is greatly appreciated. > > Thanks, > Dean > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
