Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 6 Jul 2001 14:08:47 -0700 (PDT) | From | "Jeffrey W. Baker" <> | Subject | RE: Trouble Booting Linux PPC On Mac G4 2000 |
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On Fri, 6 Jul 2001, Tim McDaniel wrote:
> > We are having a great degree of difficulty getting Linux PPC20000 > running on a Mac G4 466 tower with 128MB of memory, One 30MB HD and one > CR RW. This is not a NuBus based system. To the best of our knowledge we > have followed the user manual to the tee, and even tried forcing video > settings at the Xboot screen. > > > But still, when we encounter the screen where you must chose between > MacOS and Linux and we chose linux, the screen goes black and for all > practical purposes the box appears to be locked. We've also tried > editing yaboot.conf but can't seem to save the new file. > > Any help would be greatly appreatiated.
add "video=ofonly" to your boot command line. That is, at the yaboot "boot: " prompt, type "linux video=ofonly"
If that doesn't work, try something else :)
-jwb
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