LettuceandPickles
June 29th, 2006, 04:22 PM
I have an iBook G3 12" (900 MHz, 32 VRAM, 386 MB, AP, Combo) with Mac OS X 10.4.7 and Dapper (using Gnome) installed.
The machine boots into Tiger flawlessly every time. Cold start, hot start, doesn't matter.
Booting to Ubuntu is another matter.
After selecting a linux boot (which would be about 90% of the time) the machine will go white, dark and white again, then it will either
(a) begin to set itself up visually and boot to login visually (where the display resolution may or may not be correct, the machine will sometimes decide it wants 640x480, totally unusable) or
(b) begin to set itself up with no graphics at all save a dark, but backlit, display
While (a) is an issue; (b) is obviously a show-stopper.
The odd deal is, it does come all the way up, because I can hear it and (since I know my name and password) I can even log in.
This does not appear to be a hardware issue since it *never* happens if I'm booting to Tiger. Never.
My "resolution" has been to, once I eventually get the machine booted to a working state, never shut it down unless I *have* to.
I would like to erase the drive (a 60 GB Seagate) and go with a single OS. I've been trying all day to boot to the Xubuntu CD and it's not liking it. (But OS X and the OS X media work flawlessly today, again.)
Short of installing Yellow Dog or Fedora or something, does anyone have any idea how to work around this?
FWIW: live video=ofonly doesn't help any from the Xubuntu installer.
The machine boots into Tiger flawlessly every time. Cold start, hot start, doesn't matter.
Booting to Ubuntu is another matter.
After selecting a linux boot (which would be about 90% of the time) the machine will go white, dark and white again, then it will either
(a) begin to set itself up visually and boot to login visually (where the display resolution may or may not be correct, the machine will sometimes decide it wants 640x480, totally unusable) or
(b) begin to set itself up with no graphics at all save a dark, but backlit, display
While (a) is an issue; (b) is obviously a show-stopper.
The odd deal is, it does come all the way up, because I can hear it and (since I know my name and password) I can even log in.
This does not appear to be a hardware issue since it *never* happens if I'm booting to Tiger. Never.
My "resolution" has been to, once I eventually get the machine booted to a working state, never shut it down unless I *have* to.
I would like to erase the drive (a 60 GB Seagate) and go with a single OS. I've been trying all day to boot to the Xubuntu CD and it's not liking it. (But OS X and the OS X media work flawlessly today, again.)
Short of installing Yellow Dog or Fedora or something, does anyone have any idea how to work around this?
FWIW: live video=ofonly doesn't help any from the Xubuntu installer.