Re: yaboot installation media

[Sam Imberman <simberman@gmail.com>]

Hi,

I can confirm that I was able to boot from the image from a USB key using the line from Ben Westover in the previous message.

A CD-RW and two USB keys failed to work, it worked on the third USB key -- who knows why.

I have some slowness and error messages on boot ("ata1: SRST failed (errno=-16)") which I assume are because my IDE device is a CompactFlash card, but it all works fine after a long pause. I will dig into that issue at another time.

Also, I chose all the defaults and the installation booted fine.

This is a PowerBook G4 Aluminum 12" with a G4, model "PowerBook6,4".

Thanks everyone!

Sam

On Mon, Mar 28, 2022 at 3:19 AM Johannes Brakensiek <ml@codingpastor.de> wrote:

Am Sonntag, dem 27.03.2022 um 16:17 -0400 schrieb Jeffrey Walton:
> I don't know about the G4's, but I know about the G5's. You cannot
> boot a G5 from USB. You have to burn a CD and boot from the CD.

Booting a G5 PowerMac 11,2 from USB works well, I don't know about the
older ones.

See this mail on how to:
https://lists.debian.org/debian-powerpc/2021/01/msg00035.html

The hacks from the powerprogress forum should not be necessary anymore.

Johannes

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Sam