I am not able to give you a direct answer, but if this can be useful, I'm running a Cube (Dec. 2000) with 4.1.9f1 BootROM built on 09/14/01 (as from /proc/device-tree/rom/boot-rom/model) on a patched 7.0 SuSE Linux system. (Actually I first installed 7.0, thanks to Olaf for guiding me through this tricky assignment, and afterwards upgraded to the new firmware, without causing any harm to my linux system.) The doc on http://www.suse.com/us/products/suse_linux/ppc/system_requirements.html is really cryptic, if not wrong at all! Does it make any sense to release in Nov. 2001 SuSE 7.3 with support only for the pre-Dec. 2000 machines? BTW I'm VERY satisfied with SuSE 7.0 and really UNSATISFIED with MAC OS 9.1. I'm considering to upgrade to SuSE 7.3 and MAC OS X 10.1, but I'm little scared of broking a working system. Regards, Stefano On Tue, 4 Dec 2001, Phil Gray wrote:
I have a Dec 1999 g3 400 iMAc.
Since I am about to install OSX 10.1 and OS 9.2, Apple indicates updating Firmware to 4.1.9 Anyone know if this will thwart my plans to install SuSe Linux 7.1 ?
I read the following on the SuSE site, but it is a little vague:
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* January 2001 * These machines have a newer firmware, the bootloader is unable to open the textmode * iMacs can be used with 7.1 * Cube, Titanium Powerbook G4 can be used with 7.1 * G4 can be used with 7.1, the Radeon and nVidia cards are unsupported, remove the SCSI card, onboard ethernet may not work * iBook2 works (unconfirmed), enter "boot cd:,\\yaboot" on the firmware prompt.
* August 2000 * These machines have a newer firmware, the bootloader is unable to open the textmode * G4, Cube, iMac, iBook, Powerbook can be used with 7.0, kernel 2.2.18 recommended * the available Radeoncards are unsupported
It seems to imply that the firmware on the newer macs is not compatible. Well if I update my older Mac with the latest Firmware update 4.1.9, it sounds like I may shoot my Linux installation plans in the foot! Anyone tried this?
Thanks Phlyz
-- Stefano Miccoli chicco98@inwind.it