Re: Booting into Tumbleweed on a G5

On Thu, 28 Feb 2019 17:47:32 +0100
David Faure <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hello everyone,
> 
> I'm trying to install tumbleweed ppc64 onto an old Mac G5 for a friend (completely replacing the old OS X on the machine).
> The install (from a DVD-RW) actually went fine... but I can't boot into it.
> All I see on boot is the finder icon alternating with a "?", like it can't find any boot partition or boot code.
> The installer did create a "PowerPC PreP boot" partition on /dev/sda1, but somehow the ?BIOS? doesn't find it?
> 

Please find a guide on installing bootloader on an Apple based ppc
machine.

The way firmware locates the binary to load is implementation-defined.

The installer has been rewritten recently and does not support Apple
hardware.

The hardware is not exactly common so it is not easy to develop and
test support for the platform.

Thanks

Michal
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