[kwlug-disc] imac4,1 help

[tomg at sentex.ca]

Quoting Gordon Dey <gordon.dey at happydeys.ca>:

> So as luck would have it, I find myself attempting to put ubuntu onto an
> empty iMac4,1 (early 2006, core duo--not '2').
>
> I have googled, created a number of CDRs with various incantations, 32b
> (because it seems that the efi boot programme on the 4,1 is 32b),
> including Matt Gadient's magic mac fix, even rEFInd on amd64. But
> nothing else boots.

I am not sure if an Imac4,1 has EFI at all, but it's definitely not 64 bit.

An isolinux boot Linux disc should work.  Even EFI systems can still boot
old MBR-ish systems.

Can you please tell me which Linux images you have tried, and exactly
what showed up on the screen when you tried them?  It should work, so I
maybe you just need a 32 bit isolinux boot.  I'm not sure if Ubuntu is or
not, but I know Linux Mint is.

I'd be surprised if that debian-mac i386 disc Paul showed you doesn't boot
though.

Tom

https://www.linuxmint.com/download.php