Gaudenz Steinlin wrote:
AFAIK it's possible from within OpenFirmware. But there are no easy aliases to access your USB drive. This you'll have to dig intoOpenFirmware commands. Probably you will also need a HFS partition with yaboot on it on your stick because OpenFirmware can only read from HFS.Conclusion: While I believe it's possible in theory it's certainly not an easy thing to do. Sorry I don't have any links ready, but I remember that Colin Watson booted his Powerbook from a USB device.
I did before but I had the wrong initrd.gz. It was configured to install from net. It worked but not what I wanted. I want to create a Live/Rescue USB pendrive.
I googled it but all of the links I found so far are for x86. Sigh. -- Just my 0.00000002 million dollars worth, Shawn Programming is as much about organization and communication as it is about coding. I like Perl; it's the only language where you can bless your thingy.