Bug#399636: g3 imac: installation with the gtk-mini.iso
Holger's success emboldened me to try it on a couple of my own
PowerMac machines.
It worked flawlessly on my G4 test machine.
rick@macswell:~$ ( lspci ; lspci -n ) | sort
0000:00:0b.0 0600: 106b:002d
0000:00:0b.0 Host bridge: Apple Computer Inc. UniNorth 1.5 AGP
0000:00:10.0 0300: 1002:5046
0000:00:10.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Rage
128 PF/PRO AGP 4x TMDS
0001:10:0b.0 0600: 106b:002e
0001:10:0b.0 Host bridge: Apple Computer Inc. UniNorth 1.5 PCI
0001:10:12.0 0101: 1095:0680 (rev 02)
0001:10:12.0 IDE interface: Silicon Image, Inc. PCI0680 Ultra
ATA-133 Host Controller (rev 02)
0001:10:17.0 Class ff00: Apple Computer Inc. KeyLargo Mac I/O (rev 03)
0001:10:17.0 ff00: 106b:0022 (rev 03)
0001:10:18.0 0c03: 106b:0019
0001:10:18.0 USB Controller: Apple Computer Inc. KeyLargo USB
0001:10:19.0 0c03: 106b:0019
0001:10:19.0 USB Controller: Apple Computer Inc. KeyLargo USB
0002:20:0b.0 0600: 106b:002f
0002:20:0b.0 Host bridge: Apple Computer Inc. UniNorth 1.5 Internal
PCI
0002:20:0e.0 0c00: 11c1:5811
0002:20:0e.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Agere Systems FW323
0002:20:0f.0 0200: 106b:0021 (rev 01)
0002:20:0f.0 Ethernet controller: Apple Computer Inc. UniNorth GMAC
(Sun GEM) (rev 01)
rick@macswell:~$
It failed, as expected (since it's got a 2.6.17 kernel) on my "beige
G3" oldworld test machine. I'll try again when there's a 2.6.18
kernel available. (The problem is in the kernel or initrd, not the g-
i on this machine.)
I got the powerpc64 version and tried it on my dual-core G5 with the
Nvidia graphics card. It failed to go into graphics mode and looped
forever spewing error messages too fast for me to get them down.
I'll go to the wiki page and get the instructions for doing it in
test mode. But it will have to wait til I've had some sleep.
Specs from the MacOS-X "System Profiler" app on the video from the G5:
NVIDIA GeForce 6600LE:
Chipset Model: GeForce 6600LE
Type: Display
Bus: PCI
Slot: SLOT-1
VRAM (Total): 128 MB
Vendor: nVIDIA (0x10de)
Device ID: 0x0142
Revision ID: 0x00a4
ROM Revision: 2149
Displays:
Cinema:
Display Type: LCD
Resolution: 1680 x 1050
Depth: 32-bit Color
Core Image: Supported
Main Display: Yes
Mirror: Off
Online: Yes
Quartz Extreme: Supported
Display:
Status: No display connected
I got similar results (failing to go into graphics mode -- looping
error messages) when I tried it on a blue&white G3 (very early
NewWorld model). I had to use "video=ofonly" to even get that far.
Without it, the screen was all kinds of pretty colors, but nothing
intelligible.
Here's the config on the blue&white:
$ ( lspci ; lspci -n ) | sort
0000:00:00.0 0600: 1057:0002 (rev 40)
0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Motorola MPC106 [Grackle] (rev 40)
0000:00:0d.0 0604: 1011:0026 (rev 02)
0000:00:0d.0 PCI bridge: Digital Equipment Corporation DECchip
21154 (rev 02)
0000:01:00.0 0c00: 104c:8000 (rev 02)
0000:01:00.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments PCILynx/
PCILynx2 IEEE 1394 Link Layer Controller (rev 02)
0000:01:01.0 0101: 1095:0646 (rev 05)
0000:01:01.0 IDE interface: Silicon Image, Inc. (formerly CMD
Technology Inc) PCI0646 (rev 05)
0000:01:02.0 0300: 1002:4749 (rev 5c)
0000:01:02.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc 3D
Rage Pro (rev 5c)
0000:01:03.0 0180: 1095:0680 (rev 02)
0000:01:03.0 Unknown mass storage controller: Silicon Image, Inc.
(formerly CMD Technology Inc) PCI0680 Ultra ATA-133 Host Controller
(rev 02)
0000:01:05.0 ff00: 106b:0017
0000:01:05.0 ff00: Apple Computer Inc. Paddington Mac I/O
0000:01:06.0 0c03: 1045:c861 (rev 10)
0000:01:06.0 USB Controller: OPTi Inc. 82C861 (rev 10)
$
Tomorrow I'll try this one in test mode too...
Hope this helps!
Rick
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