Re: Booting into Tumbleweed on a G5

On jeudi 28 février 2019 18:35:56 CET Larry Finger wrote:
> On 2/28/19 10:47 AM, David Faure 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?
> > 
> > Do you have any hints as to what might be wrong, and/or how to debug this?
> 
> My PowerBook G5 is a 32-bit processor. Is the desktop version 64-bit?

Yes, this is a 64 bit machine (I mentioned "ppc64").

I might try Ubuntu indeed, if OpenSuSE can't boot, but I wanted to try just a 
little bit longer first, I like OpenSuSE ;)

Thanks.

-- 
David Faure, [email protected], http://www.davidfaure.fr
Working on KDE Frameworks 5



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