Re: Installing on PowerBook G4 - grub failure

On 24/09/2024 10:21, Steffen Grunewald wrote:

> On Tue, 2024-09-24 at 09:43:39 +0100, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote:
>>
>> FWIW I did my last install on a G4 Mac Mini using a USB stick running
>> Adrian's latest (at the time) image. I used dd to copy the netinst image to
>> a USB stick, used "show-devs" to locate the USB drive, and then tweaked the
>> cd alias to point to it:
>>
>>    devalias cd /pci@f2000000 ....
>>    boot cd:,\\:tbxi   (I think?)
> 
> Worth an attempt, but results in
> 
> load-size=0 adler32=1
> 
> LOAD_SIZE is too small
> 
> (same respronse if I try other "file" names)
> 
> There are hints in some forum threads that the A1095 indeed may be one of
> few (perhaps the only?) G4 models that cannot boot from USB.
> BootROM version is 4.8.6f0, fwiw.

That's frustrating. Can you confirm which partition contains the main filesystem by 
testing each number from 0 to 9 e.g.

    dir usb0:0,\
    dir usb0:1,\
    dir usb0:2,\
    ...
    ...
    dir usb0:9,\


ATB,

Mark.