Powermac G5 freezes immediately after booting Fedora-16-ppc64-DVD.iso or Fedora-16-ppc64-netinst.iso

[Ronald Maas]

Hi everyone,

I tried to install Fedora 16 PPC64 on a Powermac G5, but it freezes after displaying "returning from prom_init" when booting from the installation DVD. Hope someone has some tips to work around this issue.

Output:
Welcome to the 64-bit Fedora 16 installer!
Hit <TAB> for boot options.
Welcome to yaboot version 1.3.17 (Red Hat 1.3.17-2.fc16)
Enter "help" to get some basic usage information
boot: linux

Please wait, loading kernel...
   Elf64 kernel loaded...
Loading ramdisk...
...
done
found display : /pci at 0,f0000000/NVDA,parent at 0/NVDA,Display-B at 1, opening... done
copying OF device tree...
Building dt strings...
Building dt structure...
Device tree strings 0x0000000002f90000 -> 0x0000000002f91777
Device tree struct  0x0000000002fa0000 -> 0x0000000002fb0000
Calling quiesce...
returning from prom_init

Hardware:
Powermac G5 (late 2005)
Dual core 2 GHz
4.25 GB RAM
500 MB SATA unformatted
nVidia 7800 GT

Tried a couple of things already:
- checked SHA256 checksums for downloaded ISOs
- checked for burning errors
- Specified kernel flags in various combinations: 'text' 'nomodeset' 'video=ofonly'
- Tried both Fedora 16 DVD and netinst CD
- Tried F16 beta
- Zapped PRAM

Furthermore Fedora 12 PPC boots successfully, Anaconda starts up
Also latest Gentoo PPC64 + 64-bit user land are working fine at the moment after a bit of tweaking

Appreciate any help. Thanks in advance.



Kinds regards / Met vriendelijke groet
Ronald Maas
44671 Connaught Place
Chilliwack BC V2R 2Y6
T: 1 604 847 3074
E: rmaas at wiwo.nl
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