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 Posted: Mon Dec 16, 2002 7:55 pm Post subject: Re: please help an linux-on-mac-newbie |
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| morpheus wrote: | I have a problem installing gentoo on an PowerBook G4 Titanium. It's one of the newest models. I downloaded the gentoo-1.2 iso-image and burned it on a CD-RW using "disk copy". everything seemed to work fine. After the burning process I could mount the cd and browse through the directories. But then I wanted use it to install linux - of course. So I put the media into the cd-drive and restarted the computer. When I heared the startup-sound I pressed the "c" key. I heared some noise form the drive and hopped that it would boot into linux. but after some time I saw the apple-logo and MacOS X started. Then I thought that I can choose the cd-drive as a startup volume. But I cannot see it. What did I do wrong? Please help me! MacOS X is fine but I need Linux...
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My Powerbook is not in my hands today, so my answers are done just by memory.
It is possible that your CD is not bootable. It might be because either the ISO image is not bootable (make sure you use Live CD, not a stage), or the boot from CD is not allowed in your NVRAM (OpenFirmware). Or, if you've burned it not Linux (Windows, MacOSX) - some burning software requires to check a special option to allow the disk to be bootable.
By the way, I recommnd you to download "Live CD ISO 1.4-rc3" (last time I've check on that site it was as of November-02-2002 1.4-rc2 and I've installed fine from it). Here is URL to download the image http://www.gentoo.org/dyn/experimental-ppc/livecd/ |
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