[NBLUG/talk] Linux on PowerPC - Blue and White G3

Christopher Wagner chrisw at pacaids.com
Fri Oct 14 09:01:18 PDT 2005


Potentially a memory problem or even a bad hard disk?

It be interesting to see this machine at some point, and look at the
symptoms you're experiencing..

You should be able to delete all the partitions on the system and create
new ones to start from scratch.  If I remember correctly, the Blue+White
G3s use PC133 SDRAM, I'd also try swapping out all the memory and go
from there.

- Chris

Dave Sisley wrote:

> Hey, Everybody:
>
> Apropos of Rob's and Lincoln's thread on the older Beige PowerMac and
> whether they can run Linux, I have a similar question about a Blue &
> White G3 I have sitting around at work.  I've managed to turn it into
> a very attractive doorstop.  It may be that it has a hardware problem,
> but I'm curious if anyone else has a clue for me as to getting it to
> run Linux.
>
> It was running OSX, which I would have been happy enough to leave
> alone, but it would freeze up fairly often, and I was unable to run
> the Software Update without it crashing.  I tried a reinstall of OSX,
> but no luck - it would crash.  I was able to install Upbuntu and
> Fedora Core 4 and was trying to get Yellowdog on there when I finally
> threw up my hands.
>
> After a 'successful' install of Ubuntu or FC4 (meaning I got all the
> way to point where I'm asked to reboot the machine), the machine won't
> boot.  It hangs during the second stage of the boot loader, or rather
> it just kind of loops through and keeps trying the second stage.  I've
> tried reformatting the disk with the OSX install CD disk utilites.  No
> joy.
>
> I've googled a bunch, but I haven't found anything that really helps. 
> I'm thinking there's something wrong with the hardware at this point,
> but is there anything specific to the Blue & White (B/W) G3 that I
> should know?  Is there a way to clear out the drive and start from
> scratch?
>
> Thanks.
>
> -dave.
>
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