Ubuntu on Mac G3 B&W not booting

[Colin Watson]

On Sat, Dec 04, 2004 at 04:41:22PM -0500, Henry Keultjes wrote:
> Will someone please confirm that someone actually did a raw install on
> a Mac from this very ISO?  Obviously there can be problems that will not 
> show up with upgrades.   I don't mind being the guinea pig as long as I 
> know.

Yes, I always do a real install with every release ISO image before
allowing it to be called a release (although I may have to break that
rule once we start building Hoary ia64 images unless I can arrange to
test them remotely).

> Will someone tell me who is responsible for testing UbuntuPPC before it is 
> made available for distribution?

For Warty, it was just whoever on staff happened to have a Mac; I'm one
of them. For Hoary, you all are. :-)

> pivot_root : No such file or directory
> /sbin/init: 429: cannot open dev/console: No such file
> Kernel panic : Attempted to kill init!

Looks like the initrd can't find the root filesystem for whatever
reason, often because the module for your hard disk controller was not
correctly loaded. The initrd-tools source package is the place to start
investigating this.

Cheers,

-- 
Colin Watson                                    [cjwatson at canonical.com]