Re: Can't read or boot from Squeeze 6.0.4 [ppc] disk 1 on Original iMac
Hi,
2012/3/28 John Wesley Cooper <jwesleycooper@cox.net>:
> One of the first things I tried was the little "Press C at the chime" trick … at which point the drive repeatedly tried to read the disk for a minute or so, then booted into Mac OS with no other visible or audible output. I then ejected and re-inserted the disk tray, an was given a "Mac OS cannot read this disk" message after a few moments. I then tried a disk containing some printer drivers for Mac OS to see if there was an issue with the drive itself, but that read without issue or complaint. Once again, the disk I burnt is reading just fine on other machines, so that's clearly not where the problem lies … could it be that it doesn't recognize the disk image's format? If so, I'm going to have to flash the bios, aren't I?
I guess you could try to boot into the CD using open firmware commands
http://www.firmworks.com/QuickRef.html
this site always helps me
http://www.wacha.ch/wiki/howto:mac_hotkeys
there is other options like netbooting, of course it needs a tftp server...
http://wiki.ppckernel.org/w/Mac_Netboot
good luck,
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Risto Suominen <risto.suominen@gmail.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2012 09:53
> To: jwesleycooper@cox.net
> Cc: debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: Can't read or boot from Squeeze 6.0.4 [ppc] disk 1 on Original iMac
>
> 2012/3/28, jwesleycooper@cox.net <jwesleycooper@cox.net>:
>> Hey all,
>>
>> I'm having some trouble getting Debian Squeeze installed on my old original
>> iMac, which is one of the first "Bondi" blue ones ... from what your install
>> guide says, it should be supported; plus I know it's not the disks though,
>> because the OpenSuSE box I burnt them on can read them, and they were
>> verified
>> as 100% correct by K3B after I made the disks. I also tried getting the
>> disk to
>> boot from Open Firmware, but to no avail.
>>
>> Considering this, the only thing I can figure is that it must have something
>> to
>> do with the bios it has, especially after what I've read from the following
>> site
>> on getting OS-X (tiger) running on these antiques:
>>
>> http://lowendmac.com/macdan/md07/1207.html
>>
>> Anyway, the currently installed Mac OS 8.6's Apple System Profiler reports
>> the
>> CPU to be a 333MHz PowerMac G3, the Boot ROM Version as 3.0.f3, and the Mac
>> OS
>> ROM File Version as 1.6. So ... can someone tell me what I might do to get
>> Squeeze on here, if at all possible minus having to flash the firmware?
>>
> I believe it should be possible.
>
> Have you checked that the CD is readable in Mac OS?
>
> Have you tried to press C on boot up?
>
> What exactly happens? Do you see any text at all (besides that from OF)?
>
> Risto
>
>
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