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! ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- 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 -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
