Non-booting PPC DVD

Sean Earp seanfedora at gmail.com
Fri Mar 18 05:47:39 UTC 2005


Hello All-

I just ran headfirst into bug 151234  
(https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=151234) whereby  
the FC4T1 DVD is not bootable. (whoops!)  Maybe now that Linus Torvalds  
is using a Power Mac  
(http://news.com.com/Torvalds+switches+to+Apple/2100-1003_3 
-5606030.html) he can help troubleshoot some of these issues ;)

In any case, does anyone have any instructions on making the install  
work on a Power Mac?  I would love to help report bugs, but it's hard  
to do when I can't install the OS in the first place.  I have seen some  
references to mounting the ISO and extracting the boot CD and/or using  
Paul's USB Boot Image (http://people.redhat.com/pnasrat/ppcboot.img)  
but when I attempt to mount the ISO or the boot image using the Disk  
Utility on OS X, I get a message that there are no mountable  
filesystems.

For that matter, the burned DVD is not readable from within OS X  
(although the i386 version is...)

Any thoughts?

Thanks,

-Sean :)




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