Public bug reported:
I have tried this using anything from Ubuntu Breezy to Dapper Drake,
and several "flights" in between; unfortunately same problem all the time.
Both CD-R made on the lowest speed that my current system support (10x)
and factoru made dapper install CD:s.
Since this baby is a mac using a G3 Power PC, I am using a PPC
edition of UBUNTU, no doubt about that.
1. put CD in tray
2. push C key and start system
3. the mac then tries to load something from the CD
and continues to spin the drive for 20-30 seconds
after that the system stops, no text, no image - just a blank screen.
If I instead chose to boot into Open Firmware and tries to boot
from the CD manually, the system dies the same way as when
using the C-key.
I did not report this problem at first because I thought that this 8-9 year
old cd-drive is not so compatible with modern CD-R media which is
a common problem with older drives. But now Canonical has been
as kind as to provide me with factory made CD:s which unfortunately
shows the same problem.
With the old factory made Warty CD:s the system started nicely, but
something went wrong during the installation and the system died
on the first boot from the hard disk. But at that time at least the CD
did boot nicely into the setup program.
Unfortunately, my four year old son had a go on the old CD which
is no longer operational so I can not use that if you want me to
test something with that one. I can download a warty .iso if you
want me to.
Please do not hesitate to ask me any questions or make me suggestions
on how to solve this problem. I am also willing to try different procedures
and softwares and report back if that can help anyone better figure out
how to fix this problem. There are loads of cute imac:s with a much higher
potential than beeing only used for land-fills :-)
/rolle
** Affects: Ubuntu
Importance: Untriaged
Status: Unconfirmed
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install CD does not boot on tray loading rev-a imac 233MHz
https://launchpad.net/bugs/54122
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