Breezy PPC install can not find CD during install on G5 tower.

[Brian Durant]

On 7. feb 2006, at 7.26, Sasha Tsykin wrote:

> Brian Durant wrote:
>> I found a note on how to bypass the OpenFirware problem with the  
>> Breezy PPC CD, but when the install came to the point to install a  
>> base system, it couldn't find the CD. Is this a known issue and  
>> what is the solution? I tried Googling, but couldn't find anything  
>> useful.
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Brian
> Md5sum the cd and the image and see if it is not corrupted. A  
> similar thing happened to me with a fedora dvd, and when I reburnt  
> it it worked fine.
>
> Sasha


OK, I went over to the Kubuntu Breezy CD that I also had and got a  
complete install. Tried to load KDE at boot, but it kept getting  
freezing, so I had to hard shutdown and reboot, logged into the  
command line and did four full, consecutive "sudo apt-get update" and  
"sudo apt-get upgrade" commands. Followed the everything so that  
nothing got held back, which among other things included a new  
kernel. Now I have the following problems:

1) Even with the latest Breezy kernel, fan and thermal control  
doesn't work.
2) Boot shows some kernel modules that are expected but not found.
3) Still have freezing problems. KDE has never been able to boot.
4) Getting the following errors:

ata1: command 0x35 timeout, stat 0x50 host_stal 0x4
      hda lost interrupt
      mpic_enable_irq timeout

I have found the following threads:

http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-75145.html

http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-89712.html

They all describe the same problem, but they all have G5 iMacs with  
ATI graphics. I have a G5 tower with Nvidia GeForce FX 5200.

Any ideas, links, advice?

Cheers,

Brian