On Sun, Mar 03, 2002 at 06:51:49PM -1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm not new to Linux (or even Mandrake!) but can't seem to get my new > computer, an iMac 500Mhz, which is my first PPC, to boot into Mandrake > 8.2beta. Everything installed correctly. I followed the instructions > as to modify open firmware, with no luck. What I get is, computer turns > on, white screen, then folder with "?" in it, then a happy mac (with an > unhappy user) and boot into Mac OS X. I've got it to boot using the > SuSE installation disk (a useless distribution for PPC if you ask me) > but since the kernels don't match nothing really works. Help! I'm > putting myself through this because, basically, I like to follow KDE > development, I need OpenOffice, and of course, there's no cdparanoia for > the Mac!
Get this file: http://www.linuxmafia.com/pub/linux/macos/pdisk-ppc-macos.hqx Run pdisk and type L, paste the results into an email. Also please send the boot-device that you'd set in Open Firmware e.g.: set boot-device hd:15,\\:tbxi Hopefully from there we can help you... -- Ben Reser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://ben.reser.org What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty and democracy? - Ghandi
