On Fri, Sep 08, 2000 at 09:22:02PM -0500, pohl wrote: > > I have a bootable debian CD in hand (from debian-cd.com), and an old > rev A iMac that refuses to boot it. The CD boots up on my G4 without > fail, but with this iMac it cannot boot. (open firmware says that it > has trouble reading block 0). The iMac won't even mount the CD on the > desktop in MacOS, and offers to format it for me. :-/ > > This machine has never had trouble reading/mounting any other > CDs in its history, and this same disk works fine in every > machine I've tried -- so I'm at a loss. this is strange and disturbing. can it read regular ISO9660 CDs? (debian CD 1 is hybrid ISO/HFS) > Plan B: do a tftp-style net boot from open firmware. I've heard > rumorsr that some OF implementations can do this, but I can't > find any documentation on what the incantation might be at the > OF prompt. yes all newworld macs can do a netboot. all the work is involved on your tftp/bootp server. the mac just needs to have the `n' key held down on powerup. > Has anybody accomplished something liket this? I'd love some > pointers. yes, not me personally but a few have, yaboot supports netboot. one of these days i should try that just for fun... -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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