<html><body><div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 13.3333330154419px; background-color: #fdfdfd;" data-mce-style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 13.3333330154419px; background-color: #fdfdfd;">>Ubuntu 12.04 works from the Live CD.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 13.3333330154419px; background-color: #fdfdfd;" data-mce-style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 13.3333330154419px; background-color: #fdfdfd;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 13.3333330154419px; background-color: #fdfdfd;" data-mce-style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 13.3333330154419px; background-color: #fdfdfd;">This part is fascinating. It also makes be believe that you are not actually booting from the hard drive. Something is wrong with the boot loader?</span></div><div><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 13.3333330154419px; background-color: #fdfdfd;" data-mce-style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 13.3333330154419px; background-color: #fdfdfd;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 13.3333330154419px; background-color: #fdfdfd;" data-mce-style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 13.3333330154419px; background-color: #fdfdfd;">The troubleshooting steps are super sound. Can't wait to hear the results. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 13.3333330154419px; background-color: #fdfdfd;" data-mce-style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 13.3333330154419px; background-color: #fdfdfd;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 13.3333330154419px; background-color: #fdfdfd;" data-mce-style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 13.3333330154419px; background-color: #fdfdfd;">Alan </span></div><br><div><br></div><hr id="zwchr"><div style="color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;"><b>From: </b>"Josh Budde" <jbudde@med.umich.edu><br><b>To: </b>"Washtenaw Linux Users Group (WLUG)" <washlug@washlug.org><br><b>Sent: </b>Thursday, April 2, 2015 9:46:11 PM<br><b>Subject: </b>Re: [WLUG] Mac G5 Black Screen after Linux Installs<br><div><br></div>
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<div class="">1) Are you sure its actually booting after you complete the install? If you set a static IP during setup, can you ssh into the machine while the screen is blank?</div>
<div class="">2) If you can’t get into it via SSH (or ping it) while its at the black screen, it may be failing to start out of the boot loader. Do you see the grub kernel selection/ubuntu splash screen at any stage?</div>
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<div class="">If you determine its the video driver crashing, what you’d want to do is determine which video driver is loaded by the live cd, mount the Ubuntu partition from the LiveCD, then manually configure
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<div class="">On Apr 2, 2015, at 9:34 PM, Dave Coak <<a href="mailto:dave@davecoakaudio.com" class="" target="_blank">dave@davecoakaudio.com</a>> wrote:</div>
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<div class=""> I have a MAC PPC dual 2Ghz G5 processor desktop computer. I want
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it to dual boot into OS X as well as Linux.<br class="">
I have installed Ubuntu 10.04PPC without major problems. An <br class="">
attempt to install Ubuntu 12.04PPC resulted in a black screen on <br class="">
startup, as did Debian 7.8PPC 64 bit, Mint 11PPC 64 bit, and Kubuntu <br class="">
12.04 PPC 64bit.<br class="">
There is no prompt or blinking cursor at start up that would allow <br class="">
me to enter parameter or mode changes for the ATI 9600 graphics card<br class="">
in my G5.<br class="">
My reading has indicated that the Linux Kernel was changed before <br class="">
Ubuntu 12.04 that disabled the default driver that worked on my machine <br class="">
in Ubuntu 10.04. The Black screen after install is widely discussed <br class="">
with the MAC PPC G5 model with the ATI graphics card (there are driver <br class="">
problems with NVIDIA cards on my model as well). There are some fixes <br class="">
offered, but they require a command line or a start up prompt. Neither <br class="">
of which I have.<br class="">
I would like to have a newer OS installed on my G5, but I don't <br class="">
know how to make it work(my preference is Mint 11PPC 64 bit).<br class="">
Ubuntu 12.04 works from the Live CD. I have also tried Crux PPC 3.0 64 bit<br class="">
If anyone at WLUG has help and advice with this, please Help<br class="">
Thanks<br class="">
Dave Coak<br class="">
(new member)<br class="">
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