On Tue, 5 Mar 2002, Michael Marcucio wrote:
> i finally took the plunge and decided to install the beta iso onto my > powerbook... here is the specs:(from the apple site) > > 667MHz PowerPC G4 processor with Velocity Engine > 256K of on-chip level 2 cache > 512MB of PC133 SDRAM > -Built-in 2D/3D graphics acceleration through an integrated ATI Mobility > Radeon graphics accelerator with AGP 4X support and 16MB of DDR RAM video > memory > > I used drive setup to make 2 partitions, first has os 9.2 and the second is > "Unallocated" (ther was no type "Apple Free" so i left it as "Unallocated"). that' fine > booted into mac os 9.2 and everything worked fine. i restarted with "C" to > boot off the mandrake beta1ppc iso and i get: > "Welcome to Mandrake Linux PPC!" > then a bunch of verticle(sp? up and down:) black lines then the computer > proceded to boot into os 9.2... i didn't have a chance to pick the video > mode. How fast does this happen, immediately? Do you have time to hit enter? Just to verify - MD5SUM ok on ISO? How did you burn it? > any help getting past this would be appreciated. i am willing to help in any > way possible debug so just ask ;) > thanks > mike > Stew Benedict -- MandrakeSoft OH/TN, USA http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~sbenedict/ PPC FAQ: http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/demos/PPC/FAQ/ Cooker-PPC IRC: irc.openprojects.net/#cooker-ppc
