>That would explain it, because the youngest macos I have is 8.1. I >take it that the latest dual G4s are a different architecture?
They are a completely different architecture, and you don't boot them with BootX or miBoot, but from OpenFirmware. >If he doesn't change kernels a lot he can use the boot floppy >method, which works rather reliably, ie., whenever you want to boot >linux push the floppy into the drive and have it boot the kernel >from there. I used that quite happily on my 7200 until I finally >got around the stuffit chicken/egg puzzle.
