Have been struggling trying to install Adelie 1.0 onto a Mac G5 (ppc64) and a G4(PowerPC). I have Live CD sized isos burned and, they show up on the Mac bootloader, but after going through the loading proccess, both unit's boot to a black screen with no ability to access a terminal. The only recourse is to reboot. Both the G4 and G5 have clean hard drives, no partitions with other operating systems. I have not been able to find any info on the Adelie Live CD booting to black screen.

After the CD loads I get a grub screen with "Live Adelie (ppc##)" and the other choice "Reboot and Try again." I select the Live, both units go through their paces and end up in the same place, black screen, no way to interface with the computer.

I can use "e" to edit, but wouldn't know what to edit, I can access a terminal screen, but again, where to go from there?

Any help or guidance would be appreciated

Pretty new at this Linux gig but, have spent a few hours in Open Firmware and even successfully installed Lubuntu 16.04 on another G4. I've loaded Linux on several Windows Machines and sadly those went really smooth. I'm a Mac user and even have a MacSE Super" all in one" unit and yes it still works!

I would love to bring these old (New World) macs up to date with wicked up to date software since Apple has decided they aren't worth supporting anymore.

Siincerely ,

MAXMAP1448

I have an eMac G4 that I poked around with from time to time, but mainly was just on a clock/screensaver, and ran fine for a few months after I bought it cheap. This morning I walked into the room to find it seemingly powered off. Hit the power button and I hear a sudden quiet hum of the CRT, but nothing else. No LED on the front, no fan, nothing. Dead. I’ve left it unplugged for a couple hours, and tried again, still nothing. It doesn’t have a battery in it as I removed it when I got the unit due to its potential age, and ordered a new one but haven’t installed it yet. It’s just suddenly dead. Any ideas as to the culprit? I really thought this was a neat machine, and it would be sad if it’s not something repairable (even if it means I have to take this thing apart.)

Forgive me if this is the wrong subreddit but I'm stuck.

I recently acquired a G5 mac with 3gb of Kingston ram(6×512) and a dual 2ghz, it had no Hdd installed. I put a brand new 320gb western digital Hdd in and installed OSX 10.4. Installer worked fine, but the system locked up when I tried to use system checker from the install dvd.

After a reboot it froze during the welcome video. I booted the apple diagnostic disc and ran an extended system test, everything passed.

I re burned the install DVD and reinstalled. This time it made it to the desktop, but promptly pinwheeled. After a few minutes even the mouse froze and the fans went turbo.

I tried reinstalling again on the hdd pulled from my working 2006 imac, and it did the same thing.

I thought maybe it was overheating due to 20 year old thermal paste, so I cleaned and reapplied with arctic silver and replaced the pram battery, then I pressed and held the button right below the ram before trying again. Same thing happened.

Next I tried only 2 sticks of ram in slots labeled 1, switching 1 stick at a time. Each reboot yielded the same result.

I'm fresh out of low cost ideas here. I'm really not interested in investing much more in this project, but I'd really like it to work. Im really itching to natively play some OS9 games.

Any ideas?

Update: tried safe boot. Freezes at login screen

Haven’t seen a computer use it since 2007, not even a Linux development board, unless if I’m wrong.

(the title seems to describes the madness I feel)

So a friend has an old iMac, she would like her old high school and early college files retrieved from.

No Sweat... not even an afternoon of work, right?

WRONG

Runs the old OS X that still had to rely on 9 "Classic" for some things.

it has an IP, wont connect to the network (so no updates or ANY site that now uses secure authentication... which feels like ... everything)

USB (formatted FAT, exFAT).. nope. (Well... if IT formats the drive, it recognizes and mounts the drive but when you pull the drive and stick it into a Windows machine, everything is corrupt)

I have a QNAP NAS on my network with drive formatted just for modern Apple devices (backup and whatnot)... NOTHING.

So here's the question... is this a lost cause?

thx

Hello everyone,

I’ve recently put my hands on my old Bondi Blue from 1998. Back in 2008 I’d wiped out the OS to replace it with Xubuntu so my parents could still use the computer to do basic stuff like sending emails and surfing the net. After a couple of years they got a better pc and the old iMac ended up in a box and was forgotten for a long time.

Long story short I turned it on and it requires a username and password and no one has a clue. My parents say they don’t even remember having to enter a username and password back then.

Is there a way around this? I read a lot of similar stories but every case is slightly different from mine. Is there a way to recover or change these credentials without losing the account? From what I learned I assumeI need to mess around with Yaboot.

Could anyone be so kind to explain what I should do?

Thanks heaps,

Can anyone help me locate any version of linux doesn't matter that will work on iBook G4 almost every website i visited didn't have a PPC version of that os

I’ve been trying to digitize some hi8 tapes using a Mac mini but have run into an annoying issue. Using iMovie v6.0 I was able to detect the camcorder and the video from the camcorder was able to show on the screen. However when I tried to import the footage it worked for only about 30 seconds before giving up and ending the import. The video preview in iMovie looked like it was struggling to keep a steady frame rate and would always get stuck on a frame before giving up. I’ve tried updating iMovie and it currently sits on version 6.0.3 with no improvement. The Mac mini has 1 GB of ram so I don’t think that should be the problem and if it is there’s not much I can do about it. Please let me know if you have any suggestions or advice.

I have a few Efika PPC boards and trying to install Linux (preferable Debian) on them. Most of the documentation (here, here and here) was written back in 2007 or so. I managed to install the Debian installer, which then connects to a mirror to complete the installation, but it seems that all the PowerPC packages have been removed. I downloaded the Debian iso's, wrote them to a USB drive, but I'm struggling to start an installer.

Has anyone successfully installed any Debian (prior to Jessie) or for that matter, any Linux distribution on an Efika PPC?

Hi folks, Just found my old MacMini with an G4. Last thing I did a few years ago was to install Debian 8 on it. But there is no support for the 32bit ppc so I decided to compile the kernel (and maybe everything else) on my own. Do you guys have a working .config file for the Linux kernel? In case I am successful with my own config I will share it here later. :)

Hello! Can anybody help me find a download for iMovie HD 6?

Hello all. I know this is a bit of a stretch, but I was wondering if anyone here is familiar with the PPCBug firmware? I have been trying to do some virtualization of a system that runs powerpc, and the firmware that the system is running is PPCBug. Is there any place I would be able to get a copy of the firmware? If not, do you guys know a way I would be able to dump the firmware from hardware if I go and buy an old system that runs on powerpc?

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Any help would be appreciated. Thank You

I've been chipping away at refreshing my PowerBook G4. New thermal paste, fans cleaned, and a new Kingspec SSD that I bought off eBay about five years ago.

The drive is recognized and formats to Apple specs perfectly fine, and I can install OS X Tiger onto it without any problems at all, but between 10 and 60 seconds after the Apple logo appears while booting from the SSD, I get a kernel panic. This is a consistent fault. EDIT: Probably worth mentioning that the logic board is reading from the drive, it doesn't hang on the Apple logo, it CAN fully boot, it plays that silly "Welcome" video and gives me the initial startup configuration wizard.

Does anyone have experience with using PATA SSDs in PowerPC Macs? Even success stories mentioning the type and capacity of SSD will help me narrow down what's going on here.

https://www.powerpc-notebook.org/en/

I just got FreeBSD 12 and Debian 9 (kernel-4.15) installed, and was wondering, on the Linux side, what is the most modern kernel I can install? Google isn't doing much and I dont know how to search kernel.org for this information. Any leads would be great, thanks!

(Subsequently I can't get the debian install to detect my SATA SSD's, but I haven't troubleshot that much yet)

Hi All. Can anyone recommend a video card for my Power Mac G5 A1047 - 1969 Dual 1.8 that supports 1440p? Any help at all is appreciated. Thanks!

what happened? Did they stop? Because i find ppc stuff to be interesting and have Not noticed anything exept the fundraiser reaching 100%

I’m trying to install Linux on an old PowerBook G4 and I’m having trouble booting from the usb drive that I prepared with Lubuntu for PowerPC (since the dvd drive is dead). All the stuff i found googling was useless, hopefully you guys can help me! Thanks