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Re: How to make a bootable CD an all Mac ?



On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 02:42:40PM +0200, fleny68 wrote:
> Le Mardi 29 Juillet 2003 14:20, Gaudenz Steinlin a écrit :
> 
> > I don't know how to make it work on all mac's but I know another method.
> > You may use mkisofs to bless the boot folder. An example on how to do
> > this you can see on my d-i page at
> > http://www.soziologie.ch/users/steinlin/d-i/#bootcd
> 
> Yes, that i've alredady seen:
> ( cd hfsmount; mkisofs -hfs -part -hfs-volid "KNOPPIX-3.2_MiB-11b-PPC" --cap 
> -l -L -allow-multidot -relaxed-filenames -T -hfs-bless ./boot -o ${CDISO} . )
> 
> > If the only problem is that the folder containing yaboot is not blessed
> > correctly (something like marking it bootable), then you can also try to
> > load yaboot from Open Firmware by entering the correct path.
> 
> I don't know what is the exact problem on this powerbook 12". I only know that 
> this cd is bootable on others Mac (eMac, iMac, pmac, cube, ibook, powerbook 
> 17...) but strangely not on this one.

I suspect your Powerbook 12" is OldWorld, NuBus, or even 68k. What is
the model number?

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