Can't boot Fedora 4 on my Mac (PPC, G4)

[Scott Kaplan]

I have the exact same problem as Errol did back in June but I could
not find a posted solution.  I have spent many hours (what seems like
endless hours) trying to solve it.

Paul or anyone, do you know how I can solve this problem?  ... and
yes, I do have multiple installation discs (5 CDs).

Thanks,
Scott

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On Fri, 2005-06-10 at 10:14 -0400, Errol WILLIAMS wrote:
>  > I don't want to take too much of your time, but I need
> help.
>  > I am loading Fedora 4 test on a Mac G4 350 PCI. It has a gig of ram.
>  > I go through the install fine, then when it reboots for the first
>  > time, I come to the choose page. I pick the first one:
>  > "l - for Fedora core" 
>  > and it just flashes and then I get a little strange folder in
> the
>  > center with a question mark in it.
>  > Do you know what I am doing wrong?
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I'm pretty sure this is a bug that was for final:

Can you confirm if you have multiple disks?

If so I can talk you through repairing - it's a recoverable issue.

Paul

[Paul Nasrat]

On Sat, 2005-11-19 at 17:40 -0500, Scott Kaplan wrote:
>  I have the exact same problem as Errol did back in June but I could
>  not find a posted solution.  I have spent many hours (what seems like
>  endless hours) trying to solve it.
>  
>  Paul or anyone, do you know how I can solve this problem?  ... and
>  yes, I do have multiple installation discs (5 CDs). 
Do you have multiple Hard Disks in your mac.  Can you tell us a little
more about your setup there?

Paul

[Scott Kaplan]

Paul - Sorry about that, yes, more information would be helpful.

I have a Mac OSX Webserver (PPC G4 Architecture)
There are a total of 4 hard drives.
Before installation I ejected 3 of the 4 drives, because being very
new to Fedora, I didn't want to overwrite or harm my existing stuff on
the other drives.  I had to do a text base install (boot: linux
video=ofonly text) and everything appeared to work correctly until I
tried to boot.

Thanks,
Scott

On 11/19/05, Paul Nasrat <pnasrat(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote:
>  On Sat, 2005-11-19 at 17:40 -0500, Scott Kaplan wrote:
>  > I have the exact same problem as Errol did back in June but I could
>  > not find a posted solution.  I have spent many hours (what seems like
>  > endless hours) trying to solve it.
>  >
>  > Paul or anyone, do you know how I can solve this problem?  ... and
>  > yes, I do have multiple installation discs (5 CDs).
>
>  Do you have multiple Hard Disks in your mac.  Can you tell us a little
>  more about your setup there?
>
>  Paul
>
>

[Paul Nasrat]

On Sat, 2005-11-19 at 18:03 -0500, Scott Kaplan wrote:
>  Paul - Sorry about that, yes, more information would be helpful.
>  
>  I have a Mac OSX Webserver (PPC G4 Architecture)
>  There are a total of 4 hard drives.
>  Before installation I ejected 3 of the 4 drives, because being very
>  new to Fedora, I didn't want to overwrite or harm my existing stuff on
>  the other drives.  I had to do a text base install (boot: linux
>  video=ofonly text) and everything appeared to work correctly until I
>  tried to boot. 
Can you try to boot the installed yaboot image passing video=ofonly
debug (tab should list available targets).

Paul

[Scott Kaplan]

Paul,

I tried your suggestion and I get this error -

_X11TransSocketINETConnect() can't get address for
localhost:6001:Temporary failure in name resolution: Cannot open
display ":1"

Scott

On 11/21/05, Paul Nasrat <pnasrat(a)redhat.com&gt; wrote:
>  On Sat, 2005-11-19 at 18:03 -0500, Scott Kaplan wrote:
>  > Paul - Sorry about that, yes, more information would be helpful.
>  >
>  > I have a Mac OSX Webserver (PPC G4 Architecture)
>  > There are a total of 4 hard drives.
>  > Before installation I ejected 3 of the 4 drives, because being very
>  > new to Fedora, I didn't want to overwrite or harm my existing stuff on
>  > the other drives.  I had to do a text base install (boot: linux
>  > video=ofonly text) and everything appeared to work correctly until I
>  > tried to boot.
>
>  Can you try to boot the installed yaboot image passing video=ofonly
>  debug (tab should list available targets).
>
>  Paul
>
>