PowerPC version of Ubuntu 10.10 or 10.04 wont boot on my Mac

Question

Startup Disk does not see it as bootable. Holding down C gives up and ejects it. I have tried PPC version of CDs for both Lucid and Maverick.

The machine is a 867 MHz PowerPC G4 with 512 MB RAM.

I Got the ISOs here and here

Any suggestions?

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 15 '11 at 20:38

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Boot to OpenFirmware, then boot the CD from there.

https://help.ubuntu.com/11.10/installation-guide/powerpc/ch05s01.html

answered Nov 15 '11 at 20:38

tommy

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 15 '11 at 21:32

I find that my G4 PPC won't boot from CDROM/DVD, in fact it's pretty fussy about reading a lot of newer optical media.

The easiest is to create a bootable USB stick. This will involve a having to boot it from the OpenFirmware prompt. There is a good guide available.

PowerPC version of Ubuntu 10.10 or 10.04 wont boot on my Mac

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