[kwlug-disc] imac4,1 help

[Charles M]

Can it network boot Gordon? You’re welcome to bring it down to cr and use
Xubuntu network installer.

On Thu, May 30, 2019 at 10:27 PM Gordon Dey <gordon.dey at happydeys.ca> wrote:

> 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 can boot an external macbook install usb cd disk, but of course, the
> installer bails when it realizes the iMac isn't a macbook. Utilities
> work, and I can show hardware inventory. Internal cd no longer works.
> AlltThis tells me that I can boot from a usb cd if the magic is right,
> and that the iMac is complete and working.
>
> 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.
>
> Any practical advice for an old iMac4,1?
>
> Gord
>
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