Issue installing 11.1 on imac

[Chuck Payne-2]

Guys,

After waiting almost 3 hours for all the packager to install I am face
with the issue that it can't find the image for the boot loader, it
was there when I started, but it not showing up now. And I have no
clue how to fix this.

Payne

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[Richard (MQ)-2]

Chuck Payne wrote:
> Guys,
>
> After waiting almost 3 hours for all the packager to install I am face
> with the issue that it can't find the image for the boot loader, it
> was there when I started, but it not showing up now. And I have no
> clue how to fix this.

More info on the system and status would help here but:

I am interpreting this as a failure to start installation (but there's
not a lot to go on in your post...). You need an 11.1 net boot image -
earlier ones fail in this sort of manner. What are you using?

Or has installation completed but the newly installed system can't
start? In this instance, the Mac is fussy about partition types, what
have you used for the loader?

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Successfully using 11.1 on a 1999 G3 iMac

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[Chuck Payne-2]

On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 2:55 AM, Richard (MQ) <osl2008@...> wrote:

> Chuck Payne wrote:
>> Guys,
>>
>> After waiting almost 3 hours for all the packager to install I am face
>> with the issue that it can't find the image for the boot loader, it
>> was there when I started, but it not showing up now. And I have no
>> clue how to fix this.
>
> More info on the system and status would help here but:
>
> I am interpreting this as a failure to start installation (but there's
> not a lot to go on in your post...). You need an 11.1 net boot image -
> earlier ones fail in this sort of manner. What are you using?
>
> Or has installation completed but the newly installed system can't
> start? In this instance, the Mac is fussy about partition types, what
> have you used for the loader?
>
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> Cheers
> Richard (MQ)
> Successfully using 11.1 on a 1999 G3 iMac
>
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I am using the DVD ISO for 11.1, I select just a basic install. But it
fails when it get to the Boot Loader Settings. Says it can't find an
image to install. I would hope this is the last iso, as I just
download this weekend. To tell me that I have to use net install, you
got to be kidding. If this is a know issue, why not fix it. I don't
have the bandwith for a netinstall, that's why I download the iso.
Even that took a two days. Usually any other distro take about an hour
or so for downloads.

Chuck

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[Richard (MQ)-2]

Chuck Payne wrote:

> I am using the DVD ISO for 11.1, I select just a basic install. But it
> fails when it get to the Boot Loader Settings. Says it can't find an
> image to install. I would hope this is the last iso, as I just
> download this weekend. To tell me that I have to use net install, you
> got to be kidding. If this is a know issue, why not fix it. I don't
> have the bandwith for a netinstall, that's why I download the iso.
> Even that took a two days. Usually any other distro take about an hour
> or so for downloads.

I use the NET install CD to start the machine (which only has a CD
drive, no DVD). It will then automagically find the DVD in an external
reader, or on a local networked machine shared via vsftp.

I don't have a PPC machine with a DVD reader so I've never tried to
install that way - anyone else out there who has?
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[Hans Krueger]

Richard (MQ) wrote:

> Chuck Payne wrote:
>
>  
>> I am using the DVD ISO for 11.1, I select just a basic install. But it
>> fails when it get to the Boot Loader Settings. Says it can't find an
>> image to install. I would hope this is the last iso, as I just
>> download this weekend. To tell me that I have to use net install, you
>> got to be kidding. If this is a know issue, why not fix it. I don't
>> have the bandwith for a netinstall, that's why I download the iso.
>> Even that took a two days. Usually any other distro take about an hour
>> or so for downloads.
>>    
>
> I use the NET install CD to start the machine (which only has a CD
> drive, no DVD). It will then automagically find the DVD in an external
> reader, or on a local networked machine shared via vsftp.
>
> I don't have a PPC machine with a DVD reader so I've never tried to
> install that way - anyone else out there who has?
>  

I went through that and
when I did the self check of the disc it said it was bad
to make a long story short I in stalled debian on it they have an
install on cd for mac
I wanted suse on it because I know suse but it was not to be


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[Brett Smith-6]

Hans Krueger wrote:

> Richard (MQ) wrote:
>> Chuck Payne wrote:
>>
>>  
>>> I am using the DVD ISO for 11.1, I select just a basic install. But it
>>> fails when it get to the Boot Loader Settings. Says it can't find an
>>> image to install. I would hope this is the last iso, as I just
>>> download this weekend. To tell me that I have to use net install, you
>>> got to be kidding. If this is a know issue, why not fix it. I don't
>>> have the bandwith for a netinstall, that's why I download the iso.
>>> Even that took a two days. Usually any other distro take about an hour
>>> or so for downloads.
>>>    
>> I use the NET install CD to start the machine (which only has a CD
>> drive, no DVD). It will then automagically find the DVD in an external
>> reader, or on a local networked machine shared via vsftp.
>>
>> I don't have a PPC machine with a DVD reader so I've never tried to
>> install that way - anyone else out there who has?
>>  
> I went through that and
> when I did the self check of the disc it said it was bad
> to make a long story short I in stalled debian on it they have an
> install on cd for mac
> I wanted suse on it because I know suse but it was not to be
>
>

I have had success installing openSUSE DVD on my Mac G4 in the past.  I
think it was 11.0, but 11.1 should be no different.  There were
corruption issues like you're all describing here during the install
until I burned the DVD at *4x* speed.   This takes some time as you
might guess, but the install worked with a slowly brewed DVD.

The bigger issue for me is that the openSUSE kernel does not detect SMP,
and fails a custom recompile with SMP enabled.  So I can't use both
processors.  This led me to use Fedora on my Mac which sees both of my
processors right out of the box, but I still use openSUSE everywhere
else.  ;-)
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