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Wickers
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2005-08-04, 22:07

Hey hey!

So I have this old iBook... it is the clamshell 300Mhz, no-firewire version.

It boots off an OS9 cd, OSX.4, and Darwin cd just fine... but it fails at booting ANY linux based PPC bootable CD I toss at it. . . and it does not stop there, I tried OpenBSD, and NetBSD based bootable cds that are known to work on this model to no luck.

So I thought, must be an older firmware...

I installed OS9, updated the firmware, but that did not get it booting a non-apple OS either.

I know the hardware works... boots, installs, and runs OS9 and 10.3/4 just fine.

The iBook is going to be used as a network slave/server, so I really don't want it to be running OSX. Having only the 288MiBs of RAM, running OSX would not be desired. Besides, I won't be looking at it much, so a groovy desktop is not needed.

My goal is to install Linux, or NetBSD.

Any suggestions on the booting issue? (and I've tried resetting the PRAM)

Thanks,
Wickers

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Last edited by Wickers : 2005-08-04 at 22:09.
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atomicbartbeans
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2005-08-04, 23:11

IIRC you have to do something in open firmware before it'll install...

Could somebody elaborate?
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Wickers
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2005-08-05, 12:26

I've tried giving the boot command in openfirmware...
But that did not work either.
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