New PowerMac G5s (Was: Re: (no subject))

Owen Stampflee yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
Wed, 11 Aug 2004 05:01:06 -0700


> I am trying to install YDL 4.0 RC1 on a PowerMac G5 Dual 2GHz June 
> 2004. When I boot from the CD and start the installer I get a message 
> saying somewhat "trying to initialize the CPU.....failed". Any 
> workaround?

Not at this time. These brand new G5s have a new north bridge which we
just managed to bring up using Y-HPC recently. We're still working on a
functional kernel for YDL4.

The "glass master" of YDL4 will work fine on these machines.

Cheers,
Owen

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Owen Stampflee    ostampflee@terrasoftsolutions.com
Lead Software Engineer,  Terra Soft Solutions, Inc.
www.terrasoftsolutions.com   www.yellowdoglinux.com