This is an entry in many parts,so watch out.
Following a successful install of linux ubuntu 7.04 in my PPC Mac g4,I went ahead and tried to update it to the oh so praised Gutsy Gibbon.
It didn’t work. It failed to recognize my root partition,and all I get is the recovery message and an emergency shell. Nice,ubuntu.
And today I find that in my haste to install these things,the PPC wasmoved off site:the last line has a link ot thye official explanation
Beginning with Ubuntu 7.04,the PowerPC edition of Ubuntu will be
reclassified as unofficial. The PowerPC software itself and supporting
infrastructure will continue to be available,and supported by a community
team.
In English:you are doomed. Your platform has been discontinued,so you might as well be left out cold without ubuntu.
Well,I am feeling like the proverbial redheaded left hanbed stepchild,and ubuntu goes from being the a;lternative solution to the cool kid,playing now exclusion games. The whole purpose of why linux is an alternative to bloated buggy expensive OS is that you can use it and install it everywhere,even in old,discontinued,out of support computers.
Well,I am off to find expensive computers in which to install the latest gutted gibbon.
Is it an option to use an old distro and then upgrade?
as kool as this is you need to post something new…….seriously
So,gutsy needs more work,but I found a link toi the PPC FAQ where it shows possible solutions to the boot problems.
Upgrading might be an option,but I need more memory,and I want to try other alternatives.