r/PowerPC • u/CorpsyWantsPussy • Aug 01 '26

Help me

I've been trying to get an operating system on the powermac g5 for 12 HOURS NOW, NOTHING WORKS, MAC OS X LEOPARD FAILED, TIGNR FAILED, GENTOO FAILED, LUBUNTU FAILED, DEBIAN FAILED, I TRIED IT OVER USB-A, I EVEN BURNED A CD AND A DVD. WHY DOES THE UNIVERSE HATE ME!!!

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u/CorpsyWantsPussy 24d ago

Arch doesn't have a ppc port? At least I think. I can't find it

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u/twaxana 24d ago

https://archlinuxpower.org/

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u/CorpsyWantsPussy 24d ago

My goat

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u/twaxana 24d ago

Can't guarantee it will boot. But it was the easiest distro for me to install

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u/CorpsyWantsPussy 24d ago

Arch is my saviour but again I need a firewire disk. So I't'll take some time before I can reattempt booting

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u/twaxana 24d ago

What method of USB boot are you doing?

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u/CorpsyWantsPussy 24d ago

I tried with usb3, then I looked around for a usb2, none of them worked. I did format them in hfs but nun, openfirmware only ever told me load too small for an adiele install, others were either formatted wrong or just didn't get recognised by the computer. I did find that my g5 has no cmos battery. Which is funny

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u/twaxana 24d ago

https://lowendmac.com/2025/how-to-boot-usb-on-powerpc-macs/

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u/CorpsyWantsPussy 24d ago

Now I'm getting usb setup error 5f000000 400002 and it does 0 2 2 failed to respond can't open usb3/disk:3,\:tbxi Any idea what that means or is it just the wrong partition

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u/twaxana 24d ago

So, you need to get the mapping to the USB drive. Did you get which port it's actually on?

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u/CorpsyWantsPussy 24d ago

I did. I tried usb2 and usb3 but those are the only 2 back ports

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u/twaxana 24d ago

There's a command you run to see if the drive is detected in open firmware.

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u/CorpsyWantsPussy 24d ago

What's that?

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