Re: [gentoo-user] PowerPC - cannot boot from CD.
At the prompt, type: boot cd:,\\:tbxi Man - you are a genius. Don't know where you dragged that bit of black magic up from, but the Gentoo boot prompt loaded up like a dream! So the job for the weekend is the install... Cheers, -- Ant... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] PowerPC - cannot boot from CD.
Cheers dude - I'll give it a shot tomorrow! Off to bed now... ... At the prompt, type: boot cd:,\\:tbxi -- Ant... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] PowerPC - cannot boot from CD.
Hi all, I have inherited an old Apple iMac G3 500MHz running OSX 10.2 (blue/grey if that is relevant - don't laugh, I've seen the colour referenced loads in the forums !!), and want to install Gentoo on it. I have burned off the ppc version of the installation CD, but cannot get it to boot from CD. After trawling the web for ideas, I have tried holding the following key combinations down during the boot sequence with no success: 1) C 2) Alt 3) CTRL-C (this gives me a boot prompt eventually for the OSX shell) 4) command-opt-shift-del (I haven't even got these keys on the keyboard, so I tried every feasible combination of control, apple and alt keys with shift and delete - nothing worked). Any other ideas?? The mac is next to useless to me at the moment. -- Ant... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] PowerPC - cannot boot from CD.
Ant, I'm actually running a BW G3 mac (450MHz) as my main desktop machine. Personally I think its ace, but then I'm also using it with OS10.4 If you're wanting to boot from CD, you can try the following: 1) Insert the CD and wait for it to mount it (an icon will appear on the desktop). 2) Click on your little apple icon (top left of the screen), select 'System Preferences' 3) Select 'Start-up Disk', wait for the menu to populate with bootable drives, click on it to select it, and then hit 'Reboot'. Hope this works, though just as I write this, I vaguely remember there being a bug booting from CD on some of these macs -i'll go check up on that and post it if the above doesn't help. Yours, MidnighToker. On 11 Jan 2006, at 10:38, Anthony Roy wrote: Hi all, I have inherited an old Apple iMac G3 500MHz running OSX 10.2 (blue/grey if that is relevant - don't laugh, I've seen the colour referenced loads in the forums !!), and want to install Gentoo on it. I have burned off the ppc version of the installation CD, but cannot get it to boot from CD. After trawling the web for ideas, I have tried holding the following key combinations down during the boot sequence with no success: 1) C 2) Alt 3) CTRL-C (this gives me a boot prompt eventually for the OSX shell) 4) command-opt-shift-del (I haven't even got these keys on the keyboard, so I tried every feasible combination of control, apple and alt keys with shift and delete - nothing worked). Any other ideas?? The mac is next to useless to me at the moment. -- Ant... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
RE: [gentoo-user] PowerPC - cannot boot from CD.
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.orgSubject: Re: [gentoo-user] PowerPC - cannot boot from CD. Ant, I'm actually running a BW G3 mac (450MHz) as my main desktop machine. Personally I think its ace, but then I'm also using it with OS10.4 If you're wanting to boot from CD, you can try the following: 1) Insert the CD and wait for it to mount it (an icon will appear on the desktop). 2) Click on your little apple icon (top left of the screen), select 'System Preferences' 3) Select 'Start-up Disk', wait for the menu to populate with bootable drives, click on it to select it, and then hit 'Reboot'.Hope this works, though just as I write this, I vaguely remember there being a bug booting from CD on some of these macs -i'll go check up on that and post it if the above doesn't help.Yours,MidnighToker.On 11 Jan 2006, at 10:38, Anthony Roy wrote: Hi all,I have inherited an old Apple iMac G3 500MHz running OSX 10.2(blue/grey if that is relevant - don't laugh, I've seen the colourreferenced loads in the forums !!), and want to install Gentoo on it.I have burned off the ppc version of the installation CD, but cannotget it to boot from CD.After trawling the web for ideas, I have tried holding the followingkey combinations down during the boot sequence with no success:1) C2) Alt3) CTRL-C (this gives me a boot prompt eventually for the OSX shell)4) command-opt-shift-del (I haven't even got these keys on thekeyboard, so I tried every feasible combination of control, apple andalt keys with shift and delete - nothing worked).Any other ideas?? The mac is next to useless to me at the moment.--Ant...-- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] PowerPC - cannot boot from CD.
Hi MT, 1) Insert the CD and wait for it to mount it (an icon will appear on the desktop). Done, and can browse CD in the Finder just fine. 2) Click on your little apple icon (top left of the screen), select 'System Preferences' 3) Select 'Start-up Disk', wait for the menu to populate with bootable drives, click on it to select it, and then hit 'Reboot'. The CD doesn't appear on the list. Only OSX, OSZ 9 and network folder... Thanks for the help so far... -- Ant... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] PowerPC - cannot boot from CD.
Anthony Roy schreef: Hi MT, 1) Insert the CD and wait for it to mount it (an icon will appear on the desktop). Done, and can browse CD in the Finder just fine. 2) Click on your little apple icon (top left of the screen), select 'System Preferences' 3) Select 'Start-up Disk', wait for the menu to populate with bootable drives, click on it to select it, and then hit 'Reboot'. The CD doesn't appear on the list. Only OSX, OSZ 9 and network folder... Thanks for the help so far... Well, I'm not a Mac user (for a very long time now), but this sounds as if the CD is for some reason not bootable. How did you burn it? Holly -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] PowerPC - cannot boot from CD.
Hi Holly, Well, I'm not a Mac user (for a very long time now), but this sounds as if the CD is for some reason not bootable. The CD is perfectly browsable from within OSX. How did you burn it? Burnt from ISO image as I always do with iso images - that's certainly not the problem. I know you have to ask these questions of course! Cheers, -- Ant... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] PowerPC - cannot boot from CD.
Right, what you need to do goes a little something like this; if the mac is on, switch it off. Get a pen, and hold down the 'programmers button'. On a BW Mac, its the little button underneath the power button on the RIGHT hand side. (the other is the reset button). Tap the power switch (keeping the 'programmers button' held down). You should get a very non-mac like beep. Keep the button held down a little longer, and you should hear the usual Mac 'chime' noise. Once you've heard the 'Chime' you can let go of the 'programmers button' and the screen should now come alive. Welcome to 'Open Firmware'. As far as I understand it, this is the Macs BIOS, or some such thing. At the prompt, type: boot cd:,\\:tbxi and it should boot to the gentoo menu :) -mine did, and it was cool. Hope this helps, MidnighToker. On 11 Jan 2006, at 21:16, Anthony Roy wrote: Hi MT, 1) Insert the CD and wait for it to mount it (an icon will appear on the desktop). Done, and can browse CD in the Finder just fine. 2) Click on your little apple icon (top left of the screen), select 'System Preferences' 3) Select 'Start-up Disk', wait for the menu to populate with bootable drives, click on it to select it, and then hit 'Reboot'. The CD doesn't appear on the list. Only OSX, OSZ 9 and network folder... Thanks for the help so far... -- Ant... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
