Dapper Drake hangs on iMac

[Lord Sauron]

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On Wednesday 16 August 2006 02:16, Ian Orchard wrote:
> Greetings O mitey computing gurus,
>
> I thought I would give Kubuntu a try to see how newbie-friendly it
> might be. I downloaded v6.06 to a 500MHz iMac and burned the CD from
> the disk image. It is recognised by OSX as a bootable volume and
> boots from a Cmd-C start.
>
> However, after churning through the startup sequence, the cursor
> blinks briefly top left, a green bar flashes momentarily and the
> screen blacks out. Disk activity continues for a few seconds then
> everything stops. The iMac has to be crashed to restart.
>
> Anyone got any suggestions as to what the problem might be?

Sometimes there are no solutions.

I had a PII 450MHz once that kept on randomly cycling power only for Red 
Hat 4.  Didn't have that problem with Windoze 98.  Only RH4.  It was 
annoying too....  I was in the middle of OpenOffice more than once to 
find that the power had cycled and all work was lost.

The funny part was that my dad thought I was nuts until he saw the 
behavior.  He then suddenly remembered that this was the same machine 
he got from the boneyard at work.  It was vetoed by a coworker because 
it would (gasp!) randomly cycle power in the middle of things on RH4.  
No idea what could cause such a strange malfunction, we gave the 
machine to my mom and loaded Windoze 98 on it.  She now refuses to have 
her computer upgraded, even though the mouse is almost as old as I am!

Ah.. good times.


As for your problem, to me it sounds like you need to use a linux boot 
loader like grub or lilo or whatever they use on macs.  I don't think 
the mac boot loader is making many friends in the Linux world judging 
by that behavior.  The only thing I know of would be to re-install 
Linux, this time paying special attention to the class of boot loader 
installed (or not installed, as your case seems to be).
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