Power Mac G4 not booting on Gutsy Live CD

Macbuntu · 03-02-2008, 11:55 PM

I don't know if my last thread is in the right forum, so, i reposted here.

I Have a Working Live CD burned with ImgBurn, it boots up into a yaboot command line, and even after following the instructions, it will load shortly and halt at a black screen with an underscore in the upper-left corner.

Seriously, this is my 6th CD and even this one barely works, what's going on?

Drakeo · 03-03-2008, 08:05 PM

first what live cd distro and the black screen that you have means it never passed the kernel of to the ram. ok more info please.

Drakeo · 03-03-2008, 08:07 PM

the second reason for a blank screen is the system has no bootable DOS disk operating system. flashing - and nothing. please make sure bios are set to boot from cdrom good luck.

Macbuntu · 03-05-2008, 06:59 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Drakeo

first what live cd distro and the black screen that you have means it never passed the kernel of to the ram. ok more info please.

My Questions and answers

It's the PowerPC Distro of Ubuntu 6.06 LTS and 7.10, only the 7.10 seemed to almost work.

How do i get into the BIOS of a Mac?

It Uses PC-133 RAM, and has 640MB

Is there a Xubuntu Distro for Power PC? i might just put it on my iBook (320MB RAM)

I Think i did something wrong in the burning of the 6.06 one though, i'll open the .iso in
ImgBurn on my PC and burn it.