hi Leon,
After having installed fc12, linux would not complete its boot to the
login screen. This is the manner in which I resolved the issue.
I removed ALL firewire connections. I removed ALL SCSI connections. I
removed ALL USB connections.
I removed ALL seated firewire cards. I removed ALL seated SCSI cards.
I removed ALL memory modules, made sure the gold was clean, and
reinserted the modules.
I removed the Airport card.
I was left with a video card, in its slot. The monitor was attached to
this card. This is a DVI connection. I was left with an Apple keyboard
attached to the built-in USB port. Oh! I also removed the PowerMate
device from the Apple keyboard.
I then booted the ppc g4 with the fc11 cd. The installation took a
while, because I made the cd as a download the software from the
internet cd.
When the installation was complete, the installation reached the reboot
screen. When I rebooted the linux installation, the boot and setup
process occurred as usual.
After a couple of updates to fc11, now I can install fc12 if I choose
to. I purchase the fc12 cd from the LinuxStore.
When installing fc12, I will, once again, remove every device and seated
card. Then do the install.
Good Luck!
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On Mon, 2010-04-12 at 20:46 +1000, Nick Urbanik wrote:
Dear Leon,
On 08/01/10 19:47 +0000, Leon Stringer wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I've tried to install F12 on my Core 2 Duo iMac. The installation
>seemed to go okay but there's no sign of Fedora when I boot. I hold
>down the <Option> key and just get the MacOS partition. Is there a
>trick to this?
Please consider using rEFIt:
http://refit.sourceforge.net/doc/
The iMac uses EFI, and the approach I took was this:
1. Install Mac OS updates.
2. Run bootcamp, resize the iMac partition so that I have one large
partition extra.
3. rEFIt (I think I did steps 2, 3 in this order: read rEFIt docs)
4. Boot F11 installation disk (Note that last time I checked, F12 has
no proper support for the iMac 27" ATI Technologies Inc Device
[1002:9488] video; I installed F11 so that the proprietary driver
will work till the free driver is available. The alternatives
appear to be: install the F11 xorg compoiled for F12 (can be
downloaded from somewhere), or Ubuntu have a deal with ATI to
package a preview version of the 10.4 driver: extract from the .deb
package, build and install)
5. I did not delete the EFI partition, nor the Mac partition, so I
made one small /boot partition and then made the rest into an LVM
partition, and used that to make swap and /home partitions.
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Nick Urbanik
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