Boot args for booting Fedora 12 ppc DVD

[Hollis Blanchard]

On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 6:14 PM, JD <jd1008 at gmail.com> wrote:
>  Hi, I had posted earler that just pressing enter at the boot prompt
> all I get is a white screen. Then Alex Kanavin said to try
> video=ofonly
> Which I have not tried, sorry to say - because in the same message
> Alex suggested I try the ubuntu ppc, which I downloaded
> and burned on my F13 (x86) machine. I booted it on
> the powerbook G4 in 32 bit mode and I chose the live-powerpc
> and it came up just fine.
> For the record, I tried the args
> video=ofonly live-powerpc64
>
> and it failed to boot (memory fault).
>
> So, is the Powebook G4 a 32 only bit powerpc cpu or is
> the dvd I downloaded for the 32 bit only?
> If the DVD is for 32 bit only, then when I press the tab
> key for the boot args, why would it print the option to
> boot in 64  bit mode?

The G4 is 32-bit, not 64-bit.

-Hollis