On jeudi 28 février 2019 18:35:56 CET Larry Finger wrote:
On 2/28/19 10:47 AM, David Faure wrote:
Hello everyone,
I'm trying to install tumbleweed ppc64 onto an old Mac G5 for a friend (completely replacing the old OS X on the machine). The install (from a DVD-RW) actually went fine... but I can't boot into it. All I see on boot is the finder icon alternating with a "?", like it can't find any boot partition or boot code. The installer did create a "PowerPC PreP boot" partition on /dev/sda1, but somehow the ?BIOS? doesn't find it?
Do you have any hints as to what might be wrong, and/or how to debug this?
My PowerBook G5 is a 32-bit processor. Is the desktop version 64-bit?
Yes, this is a 64 bit machine (I mentioned "ppc64").
I might try Ubuntu indeed, if OpenSuSE can't boot, but I wanted to try just a little bit longer first, I like OpenSuSE ;)
Thanks.