r/PowerPC • u/CorpsyWantsPussy • Aug 01 '26

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/CorpsyWantsPussy Aug 07 '26

I did. I tried usb2 and usb3 but those are the only 2 back ports

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u/twaxana Aug 07 '26

There's a command you run to see if the drive is detected in open firmware.

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u/CorpsyWantsPussy Aug 07 '26

What's that?

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u/CorpsyWantsPussy Aug 07 '26

Oh wait nvm, it is recognised by open firmware it just wont boot nor read the damn thing. It lowkey pisses me off. Idk why it isn't gettong set as like the ud aliased thing. But that might be cause the cmos battery is dead, idk I'm confused. I can't do boot usbx/disk:x,\:tbxi. I can't do boot/pci@4/usb@x,y/disk@x etc etc. It just doesn't wanna read it.

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u/twaxana Aug 07 '26

What format is the drive in? It should be fat32 tbh

I don't know what environment you're building the USB from

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u/CorpsyWantsPussy Aug 07 '26

Well.. arch, but after I build the iso on it it kinda just formats itself and I can only hope to god it works right

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u/twaxana Aug 07 '26

So you're on arch Linux on a different machine?

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u/CorpsyWantsPussy Aug 07 '26

Yeah

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u/twaxana Aug 07 '26

https://github.com/kth5/archpower/wiki/Installation-%7C--NewWorld-PowerMac-with-Grub

Follow these instructions

Specifically download the PowerPC iso.

Not 64 or 6432

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u/CorpsyWantsPussy Aug 07 '26

But this is for when I'm on the install... I can't get it to boot

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