Hey guys,
Not sure if anyone will know the answer to this, it's sort of a Linux question. I'm a Mac user but use Linux a bit on my PC. I've never run Linux on my PowerBook G4 before. I recently purchased a drive kit so I connected my old 8gb hard drive to my PowerBook using USB which works great. The device only has USB, not Firewire. When I boot up my Mac and hold down option, it shows my main hard drive, and the Ubuntu Linux boot CD, but not the hard drive. I figured this is normal since it's empty. I booted off the CD, the ubuntu installer detected the USB drive and installed Linux to it no problem. When it went to install the yaboot boot loader, it gave an error. This is fine because I don't want to have a boot loader, I was hoping I could just hold down option when I boot and click the USB drive to boot to Linux. However, it still doesn't show the drive, even though Linux is on it and bootable. Is this normal? Will it only show firewire or internal drives? Is there some solution to this, even a boot loader I can boot off a CD or something then choose it? Not sure where to look for help, thanks so much.
Not sure if anyone will know the answer to this, it's sort of a Linux question. I'm a Mac user but use Linux a bit on my PC. I've never run Linux on my PowerBook G4 before. I recently purchased a drive kit so I connected my old 8gb hard drive to my PowerBook using USB which works great. The device only has USB, not Firewire. When I boot up my Mac and hold down option, it shows my main hard drive, and the Ubuntu Linux boot CD, but not the hard drive. I figured this is normal since it's empty. I booted off the CD, the ubuntu installer detected the USB drive and installed Linux to it no problem. When it went to install the yaboot boot loader, it gave an error. This is fine because I don't want to have a boot loader, I was hoping I could just hold down option when I boot and click the USB drive to boot to Linux. However, it still doesn't show the drive, even though Linux is on it and bootable. Is this normal? Will it only show firewire or internal drives? Is there some solution to this, even a boot loader I can boot off a CD or something then choose it? Not sure where to look for help, thanks so much.