Can't Install Linux on Quicksilver G4 — #14

Post #14 by CC_333

Source Forum	68kMLA
Category	Troubleshooting
Post Date	Mon, 12 Mar 2012 - 22:59
Original URL	https://68kmla.org/bb/threads/cant-install-linux-on-quicksilver-g4.24839/

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Have you tried booting a BSD (other than OS X) to see what the dmesg says about your RTC?

No.
I guess I could try some sort of BSD-type distribution and see what happens. The thing is, Linux won't progress far enough in the boot process to record anything in a log. It barely has enough time to put it up on the screen (most of the time it freezes with a blank screen), so dmesg probably won't help. Does Mac OS X have something similar that could yield some useful information? Maybe I will have better luck with BSD?

That sounds like there's a bad kernel version on these install CDs if it can't activate the RTC

As I said, Mac OS X seems to work, while Linux doesn't. I seriously doubt it's a bad Linux kernel, since the SAME disk (and kernel) works fine on other machines (tested on another Quicksilver and a PowerBook G3 Pismo). I suspect a possible hardware problem with the RTC, but I'm not sure, hence this thread.

It's also not good that it doesn't skip the issue and simply decide to not care.

I don't understand.
In the meantime, Ubuntu (the Linux I've been trying to use) works rather well (albeit quite slowly) on the 500 MHz Pismo. It would only be faster and better on the Quicksilver, if only the cruddy thing would just boot it!!!

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