michael258
February 5th, 2015, 09:14 AM
Here's what I've done so far:
Made sure firmware isn't locked
Reset Nvram
Wiped HDD
Installed Ubuntu Onto a disc and alternatively a USB
Tried booting holding "C" (no boot mediums appear)
Tried installing using Open Firmware (getting messages like"partition is not a number"... sooo.. don't know if I'm doing syntaxes wrong)
Sources I've used :
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2149682
http://askubuntu.com/questions/96928/booting-ppc-mac-from-cd-using-open-firmware
http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/powerpc/ch05s01.html.en
I've spent about 5 hours trying to get this thing to work.
Maybe I'm not doing or typing something correctly. Please let me know. Sigh.
-Michael
EDIT:
I've seen people installing different operating systems onto this model of computer with just the boot options prompt. Why would they be able to easily install from a different medium?
Made sure firmware isn't locked
Reset Nvram
Wiped HDD
Installed Ubuntu Onto a disc and alternatively a USB
Tried booting holding "C" (no boot mediums appear)
Tried installing using Open Firmware (getting messages like"partition is not a number"... sooo.. don't know if I'm doing syntaxes wrong)
Sources I've used :
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2149682
http://askubuntu.com/questions/96928/booting-ppc-mac-from-cd-using-open-firmware
http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/powerpc/ch05s01.html.en
I've spent about 5 hours trying to get this thing to work.
Maybe I'm not doing or typing something correctly. Please let me know. Sigh.
-Michael
EDIT:
I've seen people installing different operating systems onto this model of computer with just the boot options prompt. Why would they be able to easily install from a different medium?