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iMac G3 Keyboard and ramdisk load problem

Bug #81589 reported by Tomasz Grzegurzko
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: yaboot

I am attempting an install on an iMac G3 333MHz (Green) machine I've nabbed. The Debian Sarge, Dapper and Edgy Ubuntu CDs do not boot with this machine; I get to the yaboot prompt and can't hit any keys (enter being the one I'm aiming for!) and therefore cannot proceed.

I switched this approach for a netboot based install, and added the following to yaboot.conf:
timeout=1
which loads the kernel/initrd but the ramdisk fails to load (yaboot method load failed 000000900 ramdisk load failed).

However -- I am glad to report this problem does not occur with Debian/etch as at 26/01/2007 and am performing an installation of Etch now, but clearly there is something wrong with the yaboots from Ubuntu and earlier Debians...

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didier (did447-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

Maybe bug 26426 ?

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Tomasz Grzegurzko (tomasz89) wrote :

True enough, the initrd in Edgy is >6.1 MB while the initrd in Etch is <6.1MB, so this may be the case.

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Mike Dahlgren (dahlgren) wrote :

Thank you for doing your part to make Ubuntu better. Since this bug was originally reported against Edgy Eft(6.10), I was wondering if this bug can still be reproduced on a supported version of Ubuntu?

 Thanks,
       ~ Mike

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Tomasz Grzegurzko (tomasz89) wrote :

I understand powerpc support has been dropped from the latest versions (official support anyway). Would you prefer me to test this with the latest Dapper or the Gutsy powerpc port?

Tomasz

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Onkar Shinde (onkarshinde) wrote :

Tomasz,

Powerpc is community ported. So there are CD images available for powerpc even for latest versions. http://cdimages.ubuntu.com/ports/

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Tomasz Grzegurzko (tomasz89) wrote :

Hi,

Yep I've got a Gutsy image; my question was related more to which "latest version" you'd like me to try out:
Ubuntu Dapper (latest official supported version), or
Ubuntu Gutsy (latest version overall)?

Or both even?

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Dennis Dirdjaja (dcd-ditsch) wrote :

Hi Tomasz,

the latest version at the moment is Hardy, which you can get here: http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ports/releases/8.04.1/release/

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Tomasz Grzegurzko (tomasz89) wrote :

Hi,

I've done a Hardy test and it worked fine this time, which is great news. So I'm happy for this to be marked as resolved.

Thanks.

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Mike Dahlgren (dahlgren) wrote :

Closing out since issue is no longer reproducible in Hardy by original reporter.

 Thanks,
     ~ Mike

Changed in yaboot:
status: New → Fix Released
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