Re: Booting into Tumbleweed on a G5

On Thu, 28 Feb 2019 18:48:39 +0100
David Faure <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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.

That's probably *NOT* the partition the Apple firmware expects which is
the cause of your problem.

Thanks

Michal
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