Beige G3 Install goes fine but how to boot into Ubuntu After???

[kingnubian]

Have a beige G3 mac and got Ubuntu installed using guides such as http://animefreak.ath.cx:9000/index....rmac-g3-beige/

According to how the drive is partitioned Ubuntu is on hda8.

The problem is now how to boot into the Ubuntu system. Using the kernel and initrd from the PPC folder with BootX, the same used to get the install going, is strange as it will come to the install options page even if the cd is not in. putting in the kernel options in BootX as "root=/dev/hda8 noinitrd" doesn't work.

I am not a Mac person as I'm posting this for a friend desperate to getting this working.

Can someone please give him, through me, some insight as to what can be done???

[kingnubian]

Originally Posted by kingnubian Have a beige G3 mac and got Ubuntu installed using guides such as http://animefreak.ath.cx:9000/index....rmac-g3-beige/ According to how the drive is partitioned Ubuntu is on hda8. The problem is now how to boot into the Ubuntu system. Using the kernel and initrd from the PPC folder with BootX, the same used to get the install going, is strange as it will come to the install options page even if the cd is not in. putting in the kernel options in BootX as "root=/dev/hda8 noinitrd" doesn't work. I am NOT a Mac person as I'm posting this for a friend desperate to getting this working. Can someone please give him, through me, some insight as to what can be done???

I should add that the system installs fine but when it gets to that point that it asks to reboot he can't get back into Ubuntu to complete the install and consequently can't use his newly installed Ubuntu linux system.

[kanem]

Every linux distro that I've put on my oldworld mac required that the actual kernal that you'll be using, the ubuntu kernel in this case, be put on the mac partition in /system folder/Linux Kernels. I don't think bootx can access the linux partition. The ubuntu installation probably just put this kernel in the linux partition where it usually goes. In bootx you select the ubuntu kernel that you've placed in the Linux Kernels folder.

If this works could you post back to say if the rest of the installation and everything else works like apt-update and such? I really want to try this with my oldworld, but don't want to wipe my current installation or buy a new hard drive 'till I'm sure it works. thanks

EDIT: it just occured to me that the first part of the installation doesn't give you a chance to move the kernel over to the mac side. And you won't be able to get to it from the mac side. One way is to have another linux installation with which you can access both the mac side and the newly installed ubuntu partition. I have a small (~2GB) yellow dog linux installation for these kinds of things. Or if you can get your oldworld to boot off another live linux cd (like gentoo for ppc) that would allow you to move the kernel to the mac side. I never got my mac to boot off a live cd.

Originally Posted by kingnubian I should add that the system installs fine but when it gets to that point that it asks to reboot he can't get back into Ubuntu to complete the install and consequently can't use his newly installed Ubuntu linux system.

[Somatik]

check this thread, i got the same problem :s

http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthre...7&highlight=g3

[kingnubian]

Originally Posted by Somatik check this thread, i got the same problem :s http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthre...7&highlight=g3

From what I can gather seems it is a bug in the initrd used not loading the proper driver for disc access soon enough. If so is a workable "Fixed" initrd file available???

[kanem]

I have Ubuntu fully installed on my oldworld G3 now.

The first part of the installation puts a new kernel and initrd image in the /boot folder on the Ubuntu partition. This kernel has to be put in the Linux Kernels folder on the mac. You can't use the same kernel as the one that was used for the first part of the installation. Same for the initrd image. The new one has to be copied from the /boot folder to somewhere on the mac (I just put mine on the mac desktop) so bootx can use it as a ramdisk image.

When it boots from this new kernel the second part of the installation starts.