Dapper Drake hangs on iMac

[Brendan]

On Wednesday 16 August 2006 12:26, Lord Sauron wrote:
> 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!

Did you check logs, or try a different kernel?