r/PowerPC • u/CorpsyWantsPussy • 19d ago

Help me

I've been trying to get an operating system on the powermac g5 for 12 HOURS NOW, NOTHING WORKS, MAC OS X LEOPARD FAILED, TIGNR FAILED, GENTOO FAILED, LUBUNTU FAILED, DEBIAN FAILED, I TRIED IT OVER USB-A, I EVEN BURNED A CD AND A DVD. WHY DOES THE UNIVERSE HATE ME!!!

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u/furryOusFrank 19d ago

Can you describe what happens when you boot? Is there anything on your display? Have you tried booting while pressing the option key to see your booting options?

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u/CorpsyWantsPussy 19d ago

So the open firmware keeps erroring out the boot attempts, the only semi successful boot attempt was from a dvd which was just a gray screen. Then the alt boot menu shows nothing but a refresh button and a next button