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,
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Cheers dude - I'll give it a shot tomorrow! Off to bed now...
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At the prompt, type:
boot cd:,\\:tbxi
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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
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
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
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
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'
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
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
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