FC4-Test2-ppc on an iMac G3

Paul Nasrat pnasrat at redhat.com
Mon Apr 18 17:36:44 UTC 2005


On Mon, 2005-04-18 at 19:29 +0200, Felix Kühne wrote:
> Hello,
> I'm new to Fedora Cora on Macs and would like to install it on an old
> iMac G3 (500 MHz). The first installation disk starts fine and the
> disk-check finishes with success, but when the script tries to start
> an X-Server, the screen becomes black. The cdrom-drive scratches for a
> couple of seconds (15-20) then and after that nothing happens anymore
> for several minutes (at least 3). I reboot then, because I think that
> my iMac crashed

Known issue:

try at the boot prompt

linux resolution=1024x768
(works on my iMac DV SE)

or failing that 
linux text

> Am I just too impatient and I have to wait longer or is this a known
> issue and going to be fixed in test3?

Paul




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