RoyalJimP
February 13th, 2007, 02:37 AM
Please help. Setting up BootX was fairly straight forward. Have tried the alternate install of Ubuntu 6.10 several times. Then tried Xububtu. Can usually work the "voodoo science", one of the post I read said install on Old World Mac was "voodoo science at best", till on select and install software it reports Installed (X)Ubuntu desktop. Then it hangs. I figured that was close to when it would be trying to load Grub, (which I know will not install). So at that point I was open second console (opt F2) and would get varying steps through the cd /target, mount hfs and transfer linux kernel etc, (from Ubuntu documentation Old World Mac) when a flourish of text floods the console seeming to point to the cpu experiencing a soft lockup, and becoming idle. One time I actually was able to finish all the terminal steps before it locked and tried using BootX to boot the root partion, (on this install sda3, have two hard drives). but (I guess) because the install never finished I did not have a bootable partition. The computer is a PowerMac 7600/180, 160mb ram, 4.3g scsi (macos 9.1, bootx 1.2.2) and 18.1 scsi (1-ext3 5-swap) tring to install Ubuntu on. Google didn't find a solution and a search of this forum was unfruitfull. Hopefully there will be a more experienced user with a solution? Thanks for taking the time to read this, Thanks in advance for any help.
Jim Palmer
Jim Palmer