Re: Lombard booting Debian Ports 2020-04-19 (was Re: Updated installation images for Debian Ports 2020-04-19)

[John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de>]

Hi Ed!

On 4/23/20 5:58 AM, Ed Robbins wrote:
> FWIW, I have been booting the new images from USB, and there the command is
> boot ud:,\\grub.elf
> 
> This is despite the fact that the ISO looks like it should want to
> boot boot/grub/powerpc.elf
> 
> Remember also that you can list files in OF with
> dir ud:,\\
> Or
> dir cd:,\\
> etc

Thanks. This is useful information. I didn't know that booting GRUB
from USB like this would work.

We should definitely document this. Maybe someone can update the
documentation for Debian's powerpc port.

Adrian

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