Re: Installing F12 on Mactel

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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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-- 
ZL <zchry237@xxxxxxxxx>


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.
> -- 
> Nick Urbanik             http://nicku.org           nicku@xxxxxxxxx
> GPG: 7FFA CDC7 5A77 0558 DC7A 790A 16DF EC5B BB9D 2C24 ID: BB9D2C24

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