Fedora Core 4 PPC usb boot image
shrek-m at gmx.de
shrek-m at gmx.de
Thu Mar 17 13:13:10 UTC 2005
Paul Nasrat wrote:
>Here is a 32 bit image that will boot your mac off a usb key
>[...]
>dd if=ppcboot.img of=/dev/sda bs=1k
done
> >[...]
> >pop the usb key into your mac. Power up holding the option key (alt)
>down and you should get the graphical chooser. Choose the disk with the
>USB logo below it and the small tux log.
>
>Click on the -> arrow and it should take you there.
no luck, does not work here.
the only 2 boot devices i can see:
mac os x (hda2)
linux = fc3-rawhide (hda4)
but not the usb-stick, the usb-stick-led (256mb) is flickering
afaik the mac can not boot from usb but firwire [T].
for now i did the installation via regular nfs (not iso).
# sha1sum ppcboot.img
0074caa1772d12ee969decb9c222614b47cb7d67 ppcboot.img
> 0074caa1772d12ee969decb9c222614b47cb7d67 ppcboot.img
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