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2012-10-02 03:17 28004426 Anonymous (helpme5.jpg 1280x768 150kB)
im having problems running this linux cd on my mac. It is an imac g5 (non isight model). There is no hard drive in the system, but I doubt that is needed for what I am going to do. When I press enter on its screen, it loads its kernel and all that but it fails to load something and then it freezes (ill see the screen blink) on the last thing shown in the picture. Any help would be great, thanks

0 min later 28004436 Anonymous (helpme4.jpg 1280x768 180kB)
this is what it fails to load, I am using Fedora 17 ppc64

1 min later 28004456 Anonymous
Try Debian live.

2 min later 28004471 Anonymous
press alt+F1

3 min later 28004481 Anonymous
>>28004471 what does that do?

4 min later 28004501 Anonymous
>>28004481 did it do anything?

5 min later 28004517 Anonymous
>>28004501 let me try that now

9 min later 28004570 Anonymous
- pass the "verbose" argument to the kernel - try to boot in single mode and "systemctl status [failed command]" - it must have a decent amount of RAM - given that you have no disk, it's compulsory. >>28004456 >Debian Fedora is unparalleled in ppc support.

10 min later 28004595 Anonymous
>>28004570 dont know any of those commands, you are gonna have to give me the codes

17 min later 28004683 Anonymous
>>28004570 >Fedora is unparalleled in ppc support. I've always had the best luck with Debian on PowerPC, but I'll give F18 a try when it comes out.

19 min later 28004715 Anonymous
>>28004683 ill have to try this stuff when I come back from school in about 7 hours I tried alt+F1 (alt on a mac keyboard is "option"?) and it didnt do anything, I see the screen blink and then freeze on that last command, it could just be that specific version of fedora. I know the fedora 16 download did not work one bit on the computer. ill try the ubuntu later today and fedora 18 when it comes out.

28 min later 28004840 Anonymous
>>28004715 according to my keyboard (which has ibm-style and apple-style pictograms on it), alt is the key with the squiggly thing/apple logo

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