Mac newbie unable to boot Hoary LiveCD / PPC
Johan Walles
walles at mailblocks.com
Wed Feb 2 19:34:21 UTC 2005
I've attempted to run the Hoary LiveCD on a 400MHz G3 Macintosh.
Unforturnately I was unable to even boot from the CD :-(. Since I have
almost never attempted to do anything to a Mac before, I'm probably
doing some very basic mistake.
Anyway, I burned the CD using "cdrecord" on an i386 Warty system,
passing no flags to cdrecord except the minimum required for burning
the CD.
I inserted it into the Mac as soon as possible after the boot process
had started. The computer booted MacOS9.
It did find the CD, and it was called something like "Ubuntu Hoary
LiveCD PPC". It did contain a bunch of folders, with one named
"Install" that had a happy face on it. So for some definition of "OK",
the CD seemed OK.
I then re-booted the system again, with the CD still in the drive.
MacOS9 booted.
I then re-booted the system and held down the "c" button during the
boot sequence. MacOS9 booted.
I then found a tool called "Välj startskiva" (En: "Choose start (boot?)
disk"). It presented a list with the hard drive, the Ubuntu CD and the
network in it. The Ubuntu CD was greyed out :-(.
What should I try that I haven't already?
Regards //Johan
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