Hi, 2012/3/28 John Wesley Cooper <jwesleycoo...@cox.net>: > One of the first things I tried was the little "Press C at the chime" trick … > at which point the drive repeatedly tried to read the disk for a minute or > so, then booted into Mac OS with no other visible or audible output. I then > ejected and re-inserted the disk tray, an was given a "Mac OS cannot read > this disk" message after a few moments. I then tried a disk containing some > printer drivers for Mac OS to see if there was an issue with the drive > itself, but that read without issue or complaint. Once again, the disk I > burnt is reading just fine on other machines, so that's clearly not where the > problem lies … could it be that it doesn't recognize the disk image's format? > If so, I'm going to have to flash the bios, aren't I?
I guess you could try to boot into the CD using open firmware commands http://www.firmworks.com/QuickRef.html this site always helps me http://www.wacha.ch/wiki/howto:mac_hotkeys there is other options like netbooting, of course it needs a tftp server... http://wiki.ppckernel.org/w/Mac_Netboot good luck, > > -----Original Message----- > From: Risto Suominen <risto.suomi...@gmail.com> > Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2012 09:53 > To: jwesleycoo...@cox.net > Cc: debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: Can't read or boot from Squeeze 6.0.4 [ppc] disk 1 on Original > iMac > > 2012/3/28, jwesleycoo...@cox.net <jwesleycoo...@cox.net>: >> Hey all, >> >> I'm having some trouble getting Debian Squeeze installed on my old original >> iMac, which is one of the first "Bondi" blue ones ... from what your install >> guide says, it should be supported; plus I know it's not the disks though, >> because the OpenSuSE box I burnt them on can read them, and they were >> verified >> as 100% correct by K3B after I made the disks. I also tried getting the >> disk to >> boot from Open Firmware, but to no avail. >> >> Considering this, the only thing I can figure is that it must have something >> to >> do with the bios it has, especially after what I've read from the following >> site >> on getting OS-X (tiger) running on these antiques: >> >> http://lowendmac.com/macdan/md07/1207.html >> >> Anyway, the currently installed Mac OS 8.6's Apple System Profiler reports >> the >> CPU to be a 333MHz PowerMac G3, the Boot ROM Version as 3.0.f3, and the Mac >> OS >> ROM File Version as 1.6. So ... can someone tell me what I might do to get >> Squeeze on here, if at all possible minus having to flash the firmware? >> > I believe it should be possible. > > Have you checked that the CD is readable in Mac OS? > > Have you tried to press C on boot up? > > What exactly happens? Do you see any text at all (besides that from OF)? > > Risto > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: > http://lists.debian.org/cacyrqa0tpzsj24pxrm8tfwyooezxo4imkrsox9+dpnjqble...@mail.gmail.com > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: > http://lists.debian.org/20120328171220.qbjb30946.fed1rmfepo101.cox....@fed1rmimpo306.cox.net > -- "Cuando la guática pide comídica Pone al cristiánico firme y guerrérico Por sus poróticos y sus cebóllicas, No hay regimiéntico que los deténguica Si tienen hámbrica los populáricos." Violeta Parra Gunther Furtado Curitiba - Paraná - Brasil gunfurt...@gmail.com sip:furta...@ekiga.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-powerpc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CALKj2Cp=rTDxdB+zaVTxUOmZoWfEnXBB10+uXHWVvFh=cvx...@mail.gmail.com
