[hardy] PowerPC live cd does not boot without video=ofonly.

[Niels Kristian Bech Jensen]

The current daily-live cd for PowerPC (20080413) does not boot without the video=ofonly option on my G3 iMac (slotloading). After the message "Loading, please wait..." it just stops with a ticking noise from the cdrom drive.

[Niels Kristian Bech Jensen (nkbjensen)]

I think it might be a bug in usplash since the 'live-nosplash' boot option works fine.

[Niels Kristian Bech Jensen (nkbjensen)]

The same problem has been reported for an Apple TiBook on ubuntuforums.org.

[Niels Kristian Bech Jensen (nkbjensen)]

After further investigation I have found that the ticking noise is not from the cdrom drive but from the monitor. I seems like it is switching between modes all the time or going in and out of power-save mode. The screen is black with no flicker.

[Niels Kristian Bech Jensen (nkbjensen)]

I managed to install hardy PowerPC from the 20080420 alternate cd bug was bitten by this bug on the installed system. I could not boot - not even with video=ofonly. This is a showstopper!

A work-around is to make sure that yaboot is installed with the line 'append="quiet splash"' in /etc/yaboot.conf.

[Niels Kristian Bech Jensen (nkbjensen)]

That should have been: make sure that yaboot is NOT installed with the line 'append="quiet splash"' in /etc/yaboot.conf.

[Saivann Carignan (oxmosys)]

I confirm with the Hardy Final Release.

[llamallama (chrisjone)]

Confirmed here as well. I fixed it by booting from a gentoo livecd removing 'append="quiet splash"' and following the yaboot installation instructions on the gentoo site.

[Graham Perrin (grahamperrin-gmail)]

The same or similar here. LED of power button pulses vaguely with vague pulsing or clicking noise. Slot-loading G3 with FireWire.

Kubuntu live CD does the same.

(In my case the alternate CDs don't work either, always fail at some point in the installation routine, despite the media passing checks, but that's a separate issue.)

Where 8.04 fails, might I succeed with a version 7 installation followed by an online upgrade?

[Niels Kristian Bech Jensen (nkbjensen)]

It is still not fixed in 8.10 daily builds. What is happening with this bug?

[Niels Kristian Bech Jensen (nkbjensen)]

Still not fixed in jaunty 20081226 daily live.

[Niels Kristian Bech Jensen (nkbjensen)]

Another observation: After installation from a desktop CD booted with live-nosplash the the installed system boots without problems. It seems the problem with the splash screen is only on the desktop CD.

[Niels Kristian Bech Jensen (nkbjensen)]

Fixed in lucid daily-live 20100408.