G5 Woes

[Derick Centeno]

Hi Steve:

I'm sorry to hear of your misfortune.  Perhaps you overlooked the
hardware page here:

http://www.terrasoftsolutions.com/support/hardware/apple-powermac-g5.shtml

On Mon, 2008-06-30 at 11:16 -0400, Stephen Donahue wrote: 

> I recently acquired a dual 2.7ghz G5 and have since been attempting to
> install YDL version 6.0 (with little success). My plan is to dual boot
> linux / osx.
> 
> My problem, I cannot begin the install process. The machine will boot
> to the optical drive and load the bootloader. From there, everything
> goes downhill.
> I arrive at the "check media" screen (it verifies the disk integrity
> successfully). Once I proceed to the actual installer the computer
> suffers horrific graphical issues
> The screen image becomes distorted, warped etc. At this point I am
> unable to proceed. I found a tip online which stated that I should
> lower the monitor resolution to 800x600.
> However, as soon as I get to the check media screen the monitor
> reverts to its native resolution (see below)
> 
> My Hardware:
> 
> dual 2.7ghz G5 PPC
> 2 GB DDR SDRAM (two 1 GB PC3200U-30330 sticks)
> ATI Radeon 9650 (AGP with 256 megs vram)
> 20 inch apple cinema display
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