Re: Powerbook G4 problem
Stew Benedict wrote: > Are you sure your burn is OK? I think it's the Powerbook drive somehow. The md5sum on the disc checks out fine when I dd it back on the burner, or on the DVDROM drive in my desktop PC. Unfortunately if I try to dd it back with the Powerbook under OS X, what I get is a remarkably good random number generator. For CD 1 I'm running: dd if=/dev/disk1 bs=2k count=332802 | md5sum -b Shouldn't I expect this to work in OS X? I get no errors in the terminal or in system.log. dd reports reading the right number of blocks, no errors. Funny thing is if I go through the filesystem and md5sum each of the RPM files, they all check out 100%. Very odd. I'll try a net install if I get a chance. BTW, boot cd:,\boot\yaboot wasn't accepted at the OF prompt either. Paul.
Re: Powerbook G4 problem
Stew Benedict wrote: > Are you sure your burn is OK? Well, the md5sum checked out on the ISO, both for the release and the beta2 I tested. There were no burn errors and I've not had problems with discs from that burner before. Paul.
Re: Powerbook G4 problem
Stew Benedict wrote: > Get into Open Firmware (cmd-option-of at pwer-up) > > boot cd:,yaboot > > Should get you to the yaboot prompt. I tried booting through Open Firmware before. No joy. With the command above I get: 0> boot cd:,yaboot cd:,yaboot, unknown word ok Paul.
Re: Powerbook G4 problem
Ben Reser wrote: >>I'm having difficulty booting the CD on a mark2 Powerbook - 667MHz, >>512MB RAM, Radeon video, DVDROM drive, gigabit ethernet. >>The boot hangs within a split second of it printing the text "Booting >>Mandrake Linux PPC" > Is this the installer? Yes. > And are you trying to install with the 2.2 kernel? I don't get a chance to select anything, so it's whatever kernel it's trying to load from El Torrito. Paul.
Re: Powerbook G4 problem
Michael Marcucio wrote: > if you are tring to install, whan you get the boot options screen type > "install-radeon" > you get these lines when there is a problem with your video card settings The problem is I don't get the opportunity to do that. The box is hung and displaying no text within a split second of "Booting Mandrake Linux PPC...". There's no boot: prompt at which I could enter options. There's no boot options screen. Paul.
Powerbook G4 problem
I'm having difficulty booting the CD on a mark2 Powerbook - 667MHz, 512MB RAM, Radeon video, DVDROM drive, gigabit ethernet. The boot hangs within a split second of it printing the text "Booting Mandrake Linux PPC" (I might have the text wrong, I only see a quick flash of it). Then the screen is filled with vertical lines and there's no more out of it. I had exactly the same problem with beta2. I have previously installed SuSE 7.3 and Yellowdog 2.1 from CD on this machine. Paul.
