Re: Building a macppc bootable USB image

Martin Husemann <[email protected]> Sun, 21 Jan 2024 07:40:55 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.ports.macppc
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Sat, Jan 20, 2024 at 08:33:06PM +0000, David Brownlee wrote:
> Just tested with a HEAD and -10 from nycdn.netbsd.org, and neither ISO
> image boots when dd'd to a USB key, so we can't just make a plain
> iso9660 image.

This is what I expected.

> For entertainment value I tried creating a standard MBR type 12 msdos
> partition on a USB stick, and copying ofwboot.xcf and a kernel onto it
> but it also did not boot (I didn't expect it to be that simple :)

I would expect that to work but needing a more complex boot command specifying
partition numbers. Can you show the boot command you tried and the fdisk
output for the stick you created?

Martin