Re: Booting into Tumbleweed on a G5

On jeudi 28 février 2019 18:02:50 CET Michal Suchánek wrote:
> 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.

Heh, so both "RTFM" and "implement it yourself"?
I was hoping for a slightly smaller time investment :-)

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

And yet it created an Apple-specific boot partition?
I guess you mean that about the part about the firmware locating the binary to 
load though. I'm just curious about what you mean by that sentence exactly.

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

No doubt about that. I can offer some testing, but not really development,
I have plenty of that to do on other topics already ;)

Thanks,

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



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