PPC testing

[Israel]

Hi!

Thanks for the quick response!

You can boot USB on PPC through Open Firmware... this worked in 14.04,
and 12.04
The EFI ones (Intel Macs) do not boot from USB easily like the Open
Firmware ones do... though it isn't easy like BIOS is easy... but easy
for a proprietary locked-down piece of hardware.

I am testing the Alpha... and wondered if someone else has been testing
it, and come across this problem.

I should probably post this on some other list, rather than the 'users'
list, I suppose... but this is the list the call for testing went out
on.  I wanted to see if someone had booted it from USB yet... or if this
might be a bug, or if this is a known issue that someone is already
working on, or something I hadn't though about :)


On 06/29/2014 01:27 AM, Anthony Hoppe wrote:
>
> 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
> <mailto: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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