Re: Installing on PowerBook G4 - grub failure

FWIW on most of my machines "boot ud:,\\yaboot" will boot from USB,
but not all of them.

On Thu, 26 Sept 2024 at 12:47, Steffen Grunewald
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 2024-09-24 at 12:42:02 +0100, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote:
> > > 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,\
>
> None of them (for usb1, including "dir usb1" and "dir usb1:") worked,
> "DIR method failed" being the uniform result.
>
> Should I be able to run some "dir cd:..." (same image) successfully?
>
> Thanks,
>  Steffen
>