Hi, I had tons of trouble getting debian installed on my G5, but I eventually got there and it works great. I made a webpage documenting what I had to do. If you're having trouble getting the thing to boot, maybe this will help:
http://www.mat.ucsb.edu/~whsmith/cinelerra/debian.html wes On 8/12/05, Maximilian Gerlach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Martin, > I quickly searched the forums and found that there are quite some people > happily running Ubuntu on their G5s. And plenty of others which have > problems with it. That seems to be related to a Debian/Ubuntu error in > yaboot. Maybe it is fixed now - you can find todays live CDs here: > http://cdimage.ubuntulinux.org/daily-live/20050812/ > If they work you might consider giving a Breezy install a try.. > > > > With the 'power4' kernel option (or so - should be shown when you're > > > booting the system) you *should* be able to boot it. Why don't you grab > > > a live cd and just try it? > The correct syntax that made some peoples G5s boot is: > install video=ofonly -power4 > at the installer prompt > > > i will take a photo of the screen next time i boot one of them. > I'm not sure if I'm the right person for that ;) > How about sending it to the Debian/Ubuntu PPC people in case it still > doesn't work? Unfortunately I don't own one of those gorgeous beasts ;) > > Ciao, > Maxi > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
