Gentoo on the iBook G4
by Anne Macedo
Lost everything: using an iBook G4 because I sold my M1 MBA lol.
Getting Gentoo to boot is a little tricky. Preparing a usb boot is okay - just dd the Gentoo ppc image to the usb, no need to do any magic.
To make it boot, I had to put the usb stick on the uppermost usb! If I put it elsewhere, on the boot choice screen, it won’t boot.
Now, I’m seeing the error Invalid memory access
and I’m trying to figure out what might
be the problem - I then figured out I was using a 64 bit image on a 32 bit computer. :facepalm:
Boot options showed up by holding shift while booting grub, after a few seconds.
tags: linux - gentoo - ibook - ppc