Ubuntu on Mac G3 B&W not booting

[Oliver Grawert]

hi,
Am Freitag, den 03.12.2004, 22:51 -0500 schrieb Henry Keultjes:
> For the last month I, with the help from people at NCOLUG, I have been
> trying to get an OpenPower (PowerPC) based Mini-ITX system up and running
> so that I can demo UbuntuPPC and KDE.  However, we are having U-Boot
> problems and so I am trying to get an UbuntuPPC/KDE demo going on a Mac G3
> B&W 350 Mhz - the original chip.  I removed the 500Mhz upgrade chip just to
> make sure that was not the cause of the problem.
ubuntu is a gnome centric distribution, a lot of effort has been put in
the integration work of admin and system tools for gnome, note that
there never will be a official kde based cd image (you will have to
install ubuntu, remove gnome and install kde from the repositorys)
there are some community attempts to remaster a cd though (but i'm not
sure if anyone wants to build one with kde support)
 
> After the ISO CD, which I downloaded from the main Ubuntu server in the UK,
> loads, the system boots but then hangs with this on the screen:
> 
> audit (3873799391.335:0):  initialized
> Starting Ubuntu . . .
> pivot_root : No such file or directory
> /sbin/init: 429: cannot open dev/console: No such file
> Kernel panic : Attempted to kill init!
this looks like a bad burned media, have you used the utility to check
the cd (it is in the bootmenu of the cd) ? it is pretty important that
you burn the image at the slowest speed you can.

> I also surmise that there is an RPC server included, something I absolutely
> do not want on the system because it is a huge security hole.  Can CD's be
> made without that?
the rpc server is needed for fam... because the devs are aware of the
scurity holes that could be caused by this, RPC only listens to requests
from the local machine, there is no way to access RPC from the net.
in fact ubuntu has not one open port to the outside world as long as you
dont enable a specific one.

> Normally one would try to fix this kind of problem by loading a fix from
> a floppy.  The Mac obviously does not have floppies, it only has a CD and a
> ZIP drive which we obviously could replace with a USB floppy.
> 
> I am sincerely looking for solutions so that I can get my UbuntuPPC
> promotions started.  We had the LUG meeting last night and not having
> UbuntuPPC and KDE to demo was a great disappointment.  I hope that I can
> get help to resolve this soon.
you probably should look in the ML archives for kindered spirits to help
remastering the CD with KDE (even if you loose all the nice gnome
integration work then)

ciao
	oli

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