Fedora Core 4 PPC usb boot image

[Richard Williams Jr]

On Thu, 2005-03-17 at 10:24 -0500, fedora-test-list-request at redhat.com
wrote:
> 
>>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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>shrek-m
>
>Re: Fedora Core 4 PPC usb boot image
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I have another possible workaround. (did this with Core 3 PPC on powerbook_G4)
I used an external USB-CDR drive to load the Core install CD's, after (boot.iso) booting on the internal powerbook CD drive.
It was then not a problem to change out the install CDs with the external CDR.

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