• Just looking around
    Posts: 14 from 2018/7/17
    Hello everyone,
    First off I am rather new to the MorphOs scene so forgive me if I have a newbie problem. I tried to look through the internet for solutions or assistance on the issue I am having. To no avail help.

    I have an issue booting the MorphOs cd (that I burnt using an iMac and disk utility) on my
    Power Mac G5. (I tried actually 2x. I have burnt a v3.10 and a 3.11 the latter being just avail when I tried last night) It should be noted that I have booted and installed fine with the v3.10 onto a
    mac mini G4 (1.2ghz I think with 512Mb)

    The same disc (as well as v3.11 from last night) boots to a white screen when I try with my
    Power Mac G5 (DP 2.3Ghz)

    I have an ATI X800 XT (256Mb) video card inside.
    I have 4.5 GB in it currently soon to be 8GB.
    I currently have Mac OSX 10.4.11 (I think its x.x.11..just at work right now and think that is the latest for 10.4)

    I have tried with the holding the "c" key down when I hear the chime.. which goes to the white screen.
    I have also used the "option" key at the chime.. which it shows my HD and it does show the CD drive with a little butterfly.. so it seems to recognize the disc is there. It also mounts fine when I let Mac OSX boot up.

    I don't consider myself totally useless around the computer.. usually a pretty technical guy. I am a bit new to the whole Modern Amiga OS alternatives.. but just wanted to see if anyone had any advice or knew what was going on.

    I see that there is a way to attempt to run/install from USB using open firmware .. I could probably try that if it was the last resort.. or if that is the only way it works on Power Mac G5s.. but I somehow think this is just a one up rare occurrence. I would much rather be able to just boot from the cd like I did in my mac mini g4 .. (the reason I am trying my Power Mac G5 instead.. is cause of the more powerful computer it is.) Not sure if this matters but I have had a dvd movie and a music cd in the system playing.. and seems fine.. so I have heard that some superdrives can do one or the other.. I am not sure if this is a valid test.. but I have ran both formats fine. (its a Pioneer D511 if that matters) Just trying to be as thorough as possible for your guys

    Well thank you for all that read this.. Thank you for your time and effort in advance. I am just really curious what is going on.. and how I can solve this problem.
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