PPC testing

[Anthony Hoppe]

I do not believe booting via USB is supported by Apple PPC firmware,
period.  I don't have much experience with installing Linux on PPC
hardware, but I do know that with Mac OS you can only boot via FireWire.

Hope this helps!
On Jun 28, 2014 7:37 PM, "Israel" <israeldahl at gmail.com> wrote:

> Has anyone tried booting this as a USB yet?
> For some reason, I am completely unable to boot it.
> I have been trying various open firmware commands, but it simply cannot
> boot.
> I downloaded the Alpha the other day, with no success on booting.
> I zsynced it today and MD5SUM'd it.
>
> So... here is the problem
>
> boot usb1/@1:2, \\yaboot
> wont work...
> I get this helpful? message
>
>
> MAC-PARTS: LOAD <noninterposed> not supportedload-size=0 adler32=1
> LOAD-SIZE is too small
> ok
>
> I tried usb2 and usb3 on two machines and then I boot to yaboot, on the HD.
> Anyone have any thoughts about what is going on?  Any OF commands I
> could run to find out more info here?
>
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