Just a small post, pointing to the one and only solution to a known bug, that (incredibly) shipped with the public release of the PowerPC version of the latest Ubuntu distribution: 7.10 or “Gutsy Gibbon”. When installing that OS on a PowerPC G3 iBook (like mine), during the boot sequence the computer “freezes” (that is, the scrollbar stops running and the whole boot stops) and then you get a “BusyBox” screen, which is, needless to say, kind of a bummer.
The problem is that /dev/hda3 is not available (that is, your IDE internal hard disk) and of course, Xubuntu does not know what to do in that case. Kind of incredible, huh?
Well, the solution for that problem was in this answer of the Ubuntu Forums. Just follow the instructions there and you’ll succeed. Now I have a nice Xubuntu install in my good old and faithful G3 iBook (in double boot with Mac OS X “Jaguar”).
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5 Comments
11.26.2007
you saved my life dork ;) if we ever meet irl i should buy you a beer. thanks for taking the time to point me in the right direction!
11.27.2007
glad to help :)
12.04.2007
Worked like a charm. But i could login and use gedit instead of VIM. :)
Thanks for the help.
01.15.2008
Fantastic pointer. I have spent days looking for this. Thank you!
01.15.2008
Happy to read that :)
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