Re: Performing installer tests on PowerMac with USB sticks
This has worked for me on every ibook / powerbook I have tried it on.
First check to see where your usb stick is located. You would do
dev usb0
ls
dev usb1
ls
etc.. until you find the one that has @disk1
this is the one that you want to tell OF to boot from. So, lets say
your usb stick is at usb0. You would do
boot usb0/disk@1:,\\yaboot
On 4/30/19, Karl <mpc7500v2@gmail.com> wrote:
> Last Gen of Powerbook G4 12“ doesn’t boot from USB also.
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>> Am 30.04.2019 um 16:08 schrieb John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
>> <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de>:
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>> On 4/30/19 3:49 PM, aggaz wrote:
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>>> I find the documentation from NetBSD be the best companion to exploit
>>> OpenFirmware, in case of problems I suggest to take a look at it [1,2].
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>>> [1] https://www.netbsd.org/ports/macppc/faq.html
>>> [2] https://cdn.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-8.0/macppc/INSTALL.html
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>> Thanks. That's extensive enough.
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>>> P.S: Are ISO images capable to boot with GRUB instead of yaboot already
>>> available for the masses? If so I would like to try to boot one.
>> No, I haven't created any test images yet. Building a bootable image with
>> GRUB is quite complicated and I expect the first rounds of the image to
>> be completely broken, so there wouldn't be much sense to publish
>> anything.
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>> Adrian
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