PPC testing

[Phill Whiteside]

Hi,

as I cannot test Mac stuff, I do have one suggestion... Get a DVD-RW disk,
they're good for at least 100 re-tries and can be found at dollar / euro /
pound shops nice and cheap. I have a couple of DVD-RW's to complement my
CD-RW's. Making toastrs with -R disks is a little silly :)

Regards,

Phill.


On 30 June 2014 00:24, Israel <israeldahl at gmail.com> wrote:

>  I am not entirely sure if I have been clear enough....
> I have successfully booted 12.04 and 14.04 from USB numerous times on two
> machines.
> the usb# depends on which USB port you are using.
> This is a tried and true method, and Open Firmware does support it.
> Open Firmware allows you to set how the computer boots, and which drive it
> boots from.
>
> I was wondering if anyone else had tried this yet that
>
> a.) knows how to do this
> b.) has had success doing it in the alpha
>
> I have done this more than once.  This is something that has worked
> reliably in the past few releases.  It currently doesn't work.  So I am
> wondering if it will even boot from a DVD... I don't want to waste a DVD if
> it wont work anyhow.
>
> Is this more clear?
>
>
> 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> 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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