Usb image does not boot
Super Bisquit
superbisquit at gmail.com
Mon Jan 21 02:27:54 UTC 2013
Matt and Nathan,
I'm going to try using qemu and a debian image to set up the usb key
and then using it to go for the regular disk.
I'll also try matt's suggestion.
On Sun, Jan 20, 2013 at 8:50 PM, matt <sendtomatt at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 01/20/13 16:39, Super Bisquit wrote:
>> I've used the forth prompt to set the boot device for usb at 18/disk at 1.
>> Maybe the usb disk needs to be set up the same way a normal disk does
>> with an HFS boot partition followed by the UFS partition.
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> Don't use boot-device (it's too fast, or the OF console isn't loaded or
> something), just type 'boot /pci at f2000000/usb at 18/disk at 1:,\ppc\boot1.elf'
> I think that path to the boot1 file is correct, correct me if I'm wrong.
> Another thing to try is 'dir /pci at f2000000/usb at 18/disk at 1:,\' that should
> list the contents of the usb drive.
>
> This could also be related to the fact some mac laptops will not
> properly sync their nvram after changes are made in OF.
> In that case it would ignore the new boot-device.
>
> Matt
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