Ubuntu on Mac G3 B&W not booting

[Romeyn Prescott]

I have installed Ubuntu successfully on two G4 tower models (a "green 
button" and a "white button"), and a tray-loading iMac of similar 
vintage to your G3 with no problems at all.

I did nothing special when burning the CD (on a PC).

Is it possible it's your media?

Just trying to help,
...ROMeyn


At 4:41 PM -0500 12/4/04, Henry Keultjes scribbled:
>I have redone the download and burned the CD at 4x (the lowest 
>possible on the Plexstor) and still the results are the same.
>
>Will someone please confirm that someone actually did a raw install on
>a Mac from this very ISO?  Obviously there can be problems that will 
>not show up with upgrades.   I don't mind being the guinea pig as 
>long as I know.
>
>Will someone tell me who is responsible for testing UbuntuPPC before 
>it is made available for distribution?
>
>
>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.
>
>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!
>
>That stays on the screen for perhaps three or four minutes and then the
>system says "No Input Signal" and  reboots.  Note that the audit number
>changes every time it attempts to reboot.  The reboots seem to go on
>indefinitely untill I power the system down.
>
>If this problem needs to get resolved by redoing the CD, then I would ask
>if someone could make me a CD without Gnome so that I can load KDE myself
>or that KDE be loaded on the CD instead of Gnome.
>
>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?
>
>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.
>
>Henry Keultjes http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=5009
>Mansfield Ohio USA
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