Re-creating bootable image from boot.iso
by Robert Allerstorfer
Hi,
when I burn the 'boot.iso' file found in the 'images' direcory of
Fedora 6's ppc DVD-image (FC-6-ppc-DVD.iso) to a CD, I can
successfully boot from it with my iBook G4 (ppc-32). I have been
trying to re-create a bootable image from it:
# mkdir boot; mount -o loop boot.iso boot
# rm -rf boot-new; cp -rp boot boot-new
# find boot-new -name TRANS.TBL -exec rm -f {} \;
# volume_id="PBOOT"; system_id="PPC"; volume_set_id="6"; application_id="Fedora Core 6"; hfs_volume_id=$volume_set_id
# mkisofs -V "$volume_id" -sysid "$system_id" -A "$application_id" -volset "$volume_set_id" \
-untranslated-filenames -joliet -rational-rock -translation-table \
-hfs -hfs-bless ppc -prep-boot ppc/chrp/yaboot -chrp-boot -part -hfs-volid "$hfs_volume_id" -no-desktop \
-quiet -o boot-new.iso boot-new
Warning: creating filesystem that does not conform to ISO-9660.
CHRP boot partition 1
PReP boot partition 2 is "ppc/chrp/yaboot"
# ls -l *.iso
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 43642880 Oct 17 20:21 boot.iso
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 43642880 Mar 30 00:35 boot-new.iso
As showed above, the new .iso has exactly the same size as the
original one. However, when I burn that onto CD and try to boot from
it -> no success. What am I missing?
thanks,
rob.
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16 years, 2 months
Fedora on the Efika
by Trond Danielsen
Hi everyone!
I got a simple question: Is anyone here running Fedora on an Efika[1].
For those who don't know the Efika, its a single board computer
created by Genesis[2]. Gentoo, Crux and Debian runs on this board, and
patches required to run a vanilla kernel on it will be included in
linux 2.6.20. I got one of these for a project of mine, and I would
love to run Fedora on it.
PS: I do not subscribe to this list yet, so please cc me if you are
replying. Thank you!
Cheers,
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Trond Danielsen
[1]http://www.efika.info
[2]http://www.genesippc.com/efika.php
16 years, 3 months
booting from network with fc6 or fc7t2 / Apple G4 PPC ? yaboot ?
by Pierre Bourgin
Hello,
Can someone has any advice about netbooting Apple Mac PowerBook G4 based
to install FC6 ? or has a status about it ?
I try to use yaboot from TFTP server with the OpenFirmware command
" boot enet:0,yaboot ".
the vmlinuz file is successfully transfered, the ramdisk.image.gz
transfert begins but fail to be achieved with the following error:
Transfer FILE: /ppc32/fc6/ramdisk.image.gz method 'load' failed 00000300
ramdisk load failed !
I've also tried with the netboot image via yaboot, but it fails with the
same error message the previous one (for ramdisk.image.gz).
It also fails if trying to boot it directly from OpenFirmware (" boot
enet:O,/ppc32/fc6/netbooot-ppc32.img ").
BTW, is it a right method to load it, or the use of yaboot is required ?
Some googling seem to indicate that the file to load via yaboot are too
big ?
So I've built the last yaboot available from sources (1.3.14-rc1), but
errors messages remain the same.
I've also tried to load vmlinuz/ramdisk.image.gz of FC7-t2, but it also
fails.
Did I missed something ?
Also is it a yaboot limitation while booting from network ? no such
limitations while booting from a physical media (cdrom) ?
I must say that this is pretty difficult to find some infos. about this
:( and the Fedora wiki pages about PPC is pretty tiny.
Thanks in advance for any tips !
Pierre BOURGIN
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ARTERIS http://www.arteris.com
The Network-on-Chip Company
16 years, 3 months
