Tagged PPC970

Recently, I had a craving for some PowerPC action, so I dug up an old PPC970-based machine and had some considerable fun playing with it. The machine in question is an early model of double-processor PowerMac G5, version 7.2 to be exact:

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I've decided to write this post because these machines are getting old and any sort of info on how to boot GNU/Linux on them is getting sparser by the year. Especially the correct sort.

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