Novice - Can't get hard disk to boot - PowerTower

[Dean Suhr <deansuhr@carpedis.com>]

Hi All,

I am a Mac power user, but at novice at Linux.  I have a buddy who is
helping, but he's never set up a PPC.  We can't seem to get the hard drive
to be bootable.  We followed the new world YaBoot procedure to no avail.  I
have the hard disk fully devoted to Linux, with the Apple_Bootstrap as the
first partition - it is not mounted.

I was unable to validate that my hardware is fully compatible - at this
point I'm wondering if this might be the problem.  Power Computing
PowerTower Pro with a Newer Tech MaxPower G4 upgrade.  The system boots off
of the install floppies and the install goes fine up to the hard disk boot
step.

Two other problems - apparently it is not possible to make a boot floppy
from this configuration,

I could reinstall the 604 processor card in the machine.  My application is
low hit Web sites, FTP, DNS, & EMAIL servers,  and Mac emulation to run
LetterRip Pro, a list server that I have too much effort invested into to
switch folks at this juncture to a Linux alternative.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Dean