Hi Bryson,
On Tue, 10 Feb 2015 23:42:44 +0000
Bryson Lee <Bryson.Lee(a)sslmda.com> wrote:
I'm trying to construct a bootable USB stick for installing F19
on an
IBM 812L. So far nothing I've tried has produced anything that the
system will recognize as bootable media (i.e. the USB port/drive
doesn't appear as an option in the SMS boot-device menus). The
non-solutions so far are:
- dd a mock/pungi-generated installation iso to the USB stick
- format the stick as VFAT and _copy_ the iso contents to it
- construct a disk image containing a small bootable PReP partition
with the yaboot binary dd'd into it and an ext3 partition with the
iso contents in it. Then dd the entire image file to the USB stick
and confirm that the partition table and contents are as expected...
Is there something else I should try?
first I would start with F-21 as F-19 reached its end of life. There is
also an updated grub.conf in F-21 on the ISO that should work with older
petitboot/firmware. Then dd-ing the ISO to the USB stick should just
work.
Dan