[ydl-gen] Won't Boot YDL with Power Mac G5 1.6 GHz machine

[Henry Olders]

http://www.yellowdoglinux.com/support/installation/ydl6.2_apple_guide.pdf

page 4 says you need to partition a single drive into at least 2 partitions. Mac OS includes disk utility which does a destructive partition. If you need "live" partitioning, google for a 3rd party tool such as iPartition .

Henry




On 2010-07-27, at 10:29 , Keith wrote:

> Hi, I have done all the hash checksums and all the checksums are correct.
> 
>> Keith, did you remember to partition your internal drive so that it is
>> formatted for Linux? 
> 
> Well I can't partition it for ext2/3/4 unless I can boot up the DVD. On a Intel machine I could use partition magic,
> but what do I use for a PPC running Mac OS X? Do I have to only have a linux partition on the PPC or can OS X & YDL co-exists?
> This is my 1st attempt to install on PPC after many Intel installs of Linux so a *Good* web page would be appreciated.
> 
> TIA.
> 
> 
> -- 
> Best Regards, Keith 
> http://home.comcast.net/~kilowattradio/
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> 
>> From: "Derick Centeno" <dcenteno at ydl.net>
>> To: yellowdog-general at lists.fixstars.com
>> Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2010 6:11:18 AM
>> Subject: Re: [ydl-gen] Won't Boot YDL with Power Mac G5 1.6 GHz machine
>> 
>> On Mon, 26 Jul 2010 17:37:52 -0700
>> Keith <kilowattradio at comcast.net> wrote:
>> 
>>> I'm having a problem booting any Yellow Dog Linux for PPC with my
>>> Power Mac PPC w 1.6 GHz processor. If I put in a Mac Disk and hold
>>> down the C on the keyboard Mac OS X PPC disks boots fine. If I put
>> in
>>> any YDL DVD in the drive the YDL PPC DVD will not boot and the
>>> machine Boots Mac OS X Tiger from the HDD.
>>> I have also burned the YDL DVD at slowest speeds and on different
>> DVD
>>> burners with the same result.
>>> 
>>> Anyone know what I should check or do to get YDL PPC DVD to boot?
>>> -- 
>>> Best Regards, Keith
>>> http://home.comcast.net/~kilowattradio/
>>> 
>> 
>> Keith, did you remember to partition your internal drive so that it is
>> formatted for Linux?  Also did you bother to test whether the SHA1SUM
>> for the .iso image of YDL 6.2 you downloaded matches the official
>> SHA1SUM value before you burned the DVD?
>> 
>> If you did not do this test and/or the SHA1SUM value do not match then
>> the .iso image of YDL you burned onto your DVD is incomplete and will
>> not have all the information it needs to properly install YDL onto
>> your
>> system.
>> 
>> Please note it is not the speed of the burn that matters; but whether
>> the SHA1SUM values match.
>> 
>> In downloading the .iso it is best and most efficient to have DSL or
>> faster internet connections.  If your DSL speed is low the download of
>> the YDL .iso will take hours.  However, if you only have dial-up
>> speeds
>> (56K modem or slower) the full download of YDL will require a week or
>> longer with one phone line dedicated to doing nothing but that
>> download
>> without any disconnnects; of course any disturbance on such a line
>> means starting from scratch all over again.
>> 
>> All the best...
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