I have a problem installing gentoo on an PowerBook G4 Titanium. It's one of the newest models. I downloaded the gentoo-1.2 iso-image and burned it on a CD-RW using "disk copy". everything seemed to work fine. After the burning process I could mount the cd and browse through the directories. But then I wanted use it to install linux - of course. So I put the media into the cd-drive and restarted the computer. When I heared the startup-sound I pressed the "c" key. I heared some noise form the drive and hopped that it would boot into linux. but after some time I saw the apple-logo and MacOS X started. Then I thought that I can choose the cd-drive as a startup volume. But I cannot see it. What did I do wrong? Please help me! MacOS X is fine but I need Linux...
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please help an linux-on-mac-newbie
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Re: please help an linux-on-mac-newbie
My Powerbook is not in my hands today, so my answers are done just by memory.morpheus wrote:I have a problem installing gentoo on an PowerBook G4 Titanium. It's one of the newest models. I downloaded the gentoo-1.2 iso-image and burned it on a CD-RW using "disk copy". everything seemed to work fine. After the burning process I could mount the cd and browse through the directories. But then I wanted use it to install linux - of course. So I put the media into the cd-drive and restarted the computer. When I heared the startup-sound I pressed the "c" key. I heared some noise form the drive and hopped that it would boot into linux. but after some time I saw the apple-logo and MacOS X started. Then I thought that I can choose the cd-drive as a startup volume. But I cannot see it. What did I do wrong? Please help me! MacOS X is fine but I need Linux...
Thanks
It is possible that your CD is not bootable. It might be because either the ISO image is not bootable (make sure you use Live CD, not a stage), or the boot from CD is not allowed in your NVRAM (OpenFirmware). Or, if you've burned it not Linux (Windows, MacOSX) - some burning software requires to check a special option to allow the disk to be bootable.
By the way, I recommnd you to download "Live CD ISO 1.4-rc3" (last time I've check on that site it was as of November-02-2002 1.4-rc2 and I've installed fine from it). Here is URL to download the image http://www.gentoo.org/dyn/experimental-ppc/livecd/