Bootable USB flash drive for F19 for IBM 812L

[Dan Horák]

Hi Bryson,

On Tue, 10 Feb 2015 23:42:44 +0000
Bryson Lee <Bryson.Lee at 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