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Re: resque.bin problem



On Nov 28, Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net> wrote:

 >> I copied rescue.bin onto a floppy using dd on a unix machine.
 >> It also failed to be recognized by my Mac G3.
 >> Is it corrupted?
 >you cannot boot rescue.bin on a powerpc, instead you need boot-hfs.img
 >or something close to that.  and that is only for oldworld powerpc
 >macs.  
Another problem is that the CHRP rescue.bin image is broken.
You have to mount the image and copy zImage on a FAT-formatted floppy to
be able to boot it with OpenFirmware.

-- 
ciao,
Marco



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