@wxl: Thanks for the reply . . . indeed, the discussion I saw, couple talking heads . . . has nothing to do with this problem . . . but then I didn't hear them say "Snappy" either . . . but I only gave them about 5 minutes to access the focus of their effort.
@Peter: Thanks also for your thoughts . . . however, past efforts to "boot open firmware" to try to boot a USB flash edition based upon the PowerPCFAQ instructions were ***not successful**** for my '04 era iBook G4 . . . well, I was able to boot into open firmware . . . but none of the supplied options on the FAQ did anything . . . and that included something like "//yaboot"???? that was trying to boot the yaboot file in the USB flash . . . . Point being, that I would need detailed directions on how to try that . . . and possibly that machine would not comply. In terms of the "boot with c key" to boot the cdrom, right, that should have worked, but didn't . . . it went to the Yaboot window, and then selecting "c" for cdrom . . . brought some error . . . might have then been able to hit "return" and then tried "L" . . . leading to the frozen dmesg??? list, OR I can reboot into OSX . . . . My thought is to again try to boot the linux install disk and try to run the install again and see if it "recognizes" anything as "installed" . . . and then tries to repair . . . . To the best of my knowledge Yaboot doesn't have a "recovery" mode like GRUB does . . . . Or . . . if that fails . . . "nuke and pave" . . . once again. One way or another, it isn't per se the install that is the issue, I got the system installed . . . and could probably do it again. It's just the fact that using my usual "manual" partition method did not work . . . and possibly this may relate to some of these recent "installer" issues???? F On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 1:11 PM, Peter Golis <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello Fritz, > you can start open firmware and start yaboot from that small disk formated > by UFS which is called new world boot. > > Alternatively you can insert LiveCD for PowerPC and startup that computer > to boot from cdrom. There shall be enough to press/hold key "c" to tell OFI > to boot from cdrom. Rest can be done using chroot. > > > Fritz Hudnut <[email protected]> wrote: > > Folks: > > Just a little follow-up on the installer issue(s) . . . tried to watch the > recent Hangouts on the installer on the world Ubuntu meeting, but didn't > seem to be on point and at that time I hadn't tried to run an install. > Over the weekend I tried to install two flavors from desktop image burned > to DVD on my iBook G4 . . . first it was Lubuntu 14.04 LTS that I had > burned and I believe I installed and from memory downloaded in February. > > I followed my usual style of selecting "something else" from the choice as > I run a dual boot, set up a 10 MB "new world boot" partition, 12 GB > formatted "ext4" . . . and 2x RAM at 1380MB for swap . . . ran through the > usual ID & password stuff . . . and the installer opened and started with > "saving files xxx" . . . . 15 minutes later it was "still doing that" > which ordinarily the install should be finishing or almost. Checked > GParted, boot partition showed 9MB installed, and ext4 showed 322MB . . . > ???? Deleted the partitions and tried again . . . same thing . . . . So I > assumed that somehow the Lubuntu installer issues that have been discussed > here had "migrated" into my burned DVD by magic . . . so I went on to try > for a Ubuntu-MATE 15 iso . . . many downloads later I had a correct > checksum number and burned it to DVD. > > The next day, yesterday I went for the install, this time I noticed that > when I set up the Newworld boot it was flagged as "/" . . . and I also > flagged the ext4 partition as "/" as I usual do for prior successful > installs . . . running the install brought the same "saving copies" . . . > with the same 9MB in newworld and 322MB showing as "used" . . . sensing a > pattern I tried to delete the newworld partition, but, it would not run w/o > it. Then I tried to remove the "/" from the neworld, also not accepted . . > . same thing when I tried to remove the "/" from the ext 4 partition. > > So, I gave up on trying to use "something else" and I deleted all the > partitions to "free space" and ran it as "install alongside OSX" . . . and > it went through, Yaboot was installed . . . . However, on reboot it went > to a black screen, my radeon boot params were not carried over to the > install . . . so I tried to set up an Xorg.conf and at same time add the > boot params to the Yaboot.conf file . . . and botched the deal by > forgetting (I believe) to run "sudo ybin" . . . and on reboot it went to > the verbose log . . . ending with "p link is down" and it froze there. > > I tried to boot a Super Grub2 CD but Yaboot would not boot it . . . so, > problems with install, work around that "fixed it," and then I screwed it > up . . . seems par for the course for the iBook lately . . . . > > Clearly there are "issues" with the "something else" way of installing > with possibly the double flag for "/" being involved? If there is a bug > report for this issue, happy to add my name to it. Might have time in a > few days to try to run the installer over my install and see if it "dpkg" > the problem . . . ah, I also tried to get to a TTY after my Xorg & Yaboot > conf fiasco . . . no dice would not open a TTY shell . . . . > > F/e.e.p. >
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