unfortunately, i've tried all these and have had no success on my G4 powermac
(circa 2000, w/ DVD-rom and Zip drive)
if someone could recommend a course of action, that would be amazing. i'm a bit
of a Linux newbie (1 year with Ubuntu) and a total PPC novice.
i'm able to get to the Yaboot prompt after doing nothing or 4-6 cycles of;
<terminal>
First Stage Ubuntu Bootstrap
Press l for GNU/Linux,
Press c for cd-rom.
Stage 1 Boot: c
Booting CDROM ...
</terminal>
then;
<terminal>
Welcome to Yaboot version 1.3.13
Enter "Help" to get some basic usage information
boot: <tab>
Linux old
boot: _
</terminal>
both "Linux" and "old" boot to a working Gnome GUI, except that there is no
ethernet connection, no audio, and no CD-Rom recognition.
i've tried holding C while booting, but that doesn't seem to work either. i
also understand that PPC does not use a BIOS and i cannot seem to get to the
OpenFirmware terminal. once i get to the GUI the system monitor tells me i'm
using kernel 2.6.22-14 on Gutsy. the terminal seems to work properly so i can
open, edit and save text files. however, modprobe ide-disk and modprobe
ide-core seem to have no affect.
if i could just get a CD to boot, i'd downgrade to feisty and be fine with that.
thanks in advance.
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IDE drivers not loaded at boot with powerpc
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