RE: [gentoo-user] PowerPC - cannot boot from CD.

[Midnight Toker]

To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] PowerPC - cannot boot from CD.

Ant,

	I'm actually running a B&W G3 mac (450MHz) as my main desktop  
machine. Personally I think its ace, but then I'm also using it with  
OS10.4

	If you're wanting to boot from CD, you can try the following:

	1)	Insert the CD and wait for it to mount it (an icon will appear on  
the desktop).

	2)	Click on your little apple icon (top left of the screen), select  
'System Preferences'

	3)	Select 'Start-up Disk', wait for the menu to populate with  
bootable drives, click on it to select it, and then hit 'Reboot'.

Hope this works, though just as I write this, I vaguely remember  
there being a bug booting from CD on some of these macs -i'll go  
check up on that and post it if the above doesn't help.

Yours,

MidnighToker.


On 11 Jan 2006, at 10:38, Anthony Roy wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I have inherited an old Apple iMac G3 500MHz running OSX 10.2
> (blue/grey if that is relevant - don't laugh, I've seen the colour
> referenced loads in the forums !!), and want to install Gentoo on it.
> I have burned off the ppc version of the installation CD, but cannot
> get it to boot from CD.
>
> After trawling the web for ideas, I have tried holding the following
> key combinations down during the boot sequence with no success:
>
> 1) C
> 2) Alt
> 3) CTRL-C (this gives me a boot prompt eventually for the OSX shell)
> 4) command-opt-shift-del (I haven't even got these keys on the
> keyboard, so I tried every feasible combination of control, apple and
> alt keys with shift and delete - nothing worked).
>
> Any other ideas?? The mac is next to useless to me at the moment.
>
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