[clue] PPC yaboot issues

[Will Jones]

My reasoning for installing Ubuntu was to make sure I could get everything
to work properly, I tried Debian, but the display did some really funky
things, and I've had better luck with Ubuntu in the past. I have the prompt
from yaboot to run from cd or hard disk, but it doesn't seem to do anything.

I used the most recent LTS. Do you guys know if there have been any issues
with installing a different distro after yaboot is installed?

Thanks,

Will

On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 2:50 PM, David L. Anselmi <anselmi at anselmi.us>
wrote:

> Will Jones wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Long time lurker, first time poster. I have an old powermac g5 that I
> tried
> > installing Debian on, which didn't work at all, so I tried installing
> > ubuntu, which worked well, but for some reason yaboot does nothing. It
> just
> > sits on the boot screen giving me options for booting from cd or the hard
> > disk. I was wondering if there was anyone out there that is familiar with
> > yaboot. MY eventual goal is to try and install something along the lines
> of
> > gentoo, I am fairly familiar with installing it on amd64 hardware.
>
> How does installing Ubuntu achieve your goal to install gentoo?
>
> It looks like you can use grub2 on a PPC Mac. Maybe in Ubuntu that
> requires getting it booted first
> so that may not help. But if you can find an installer that uses grub2 it
> might be better supported
> (or at least more familiar to the rest of the world).
>
> Are you using a new-ish Ubuntu? Did you look at their bug list?
>
> Dave
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