Hello,
We recently did inventory on our office and found a G5 PowerMac lying around, PowerPC Dual 2GHZ with 6GB, I thought we might be able to use it as a test server for some of our web developers.
I installed Ubuntu Server 14.04.03 LTS PPC on it using the CD/DVD drive, it installs fine, no hiccups whatsoever and I let it use the entire drive. The installer finishes normally and restarts (Ejecting the CD) when it boots in again yaboot goes through the first and second stages of bootstrapping, the font changes and I can see Ubuntu is starting to boot, however it hangs up after these messages:
A bit of googling revealed that the first error was just the sound card not being recognized, which I don't mind. The second error was probably the system clock not loading properly. The last two errors are non-critical kernel errors.
After that the cursor doesn't blink and gets stuck and nothing happens, I can't enter anything at all.
I don't know if these errors are the cause of the system hanging up or is there something else going on, it seems no one has had this error before on a PowerMac G5 so Google is not helpful. Does anyone have any suggestions?
Thanks
We recently did inventory on our office and found a G5 PowerMac lying around, PowerPC Dual 2GHZ with 6GB, I thought we might be able to use it as a test server for some of our web developers.
I installed Ubuntu Server 14.04.03 LTS PPC on it using the CD/DVD drive, it installs fine, no hiccups whatsoever and I let it use the entire drive. The installer finishes normally and restarts (Ejecting the CD) when it boots in again yaboot goes through the first and second stages of bootstrapping, the font changes and I can see Ubuntu is starting to boot, however it hangs up after these messages:
Code:
[ 1.545148] i2c i2c-3: i2c-powermac: modalias faliure on /u3@0,f8000000/i2c@f8001000/cereal@1c0
[ 1.619845] /build/linux-lts-vivid-HJaZWY/linux-lts-vivid-3.19.0/drivers/rtc/hctosys.c: unable to open rtc device (rtc0)
[ 9.640701] shpchp 0001:00:01.0: Cannot reserve MMIO region
[ 9.640892] shpchp 0001:00:01.0: Cannot reserve MMIO regionAfter that the cursor doesn't blink and gets stuck and nothing happens, I can't enter anything at all.
I don't know if these errors are the cause of the system hanging up or is there something else going on, it seems no one has had this error before on a PowerMac G5 so Google is not helpful. Does anyone have any suggestions?
Thanks