On Tue, Oct 19, 2004 at 11:20:24AM -0700, Mike Power wrote: > I am having trouble getting my iBook G4 USB 2.0 to boot off a SanDisk > Cruzer Micro 256 USB2.0 flash drive. I have the flash drive partitioned > with OSX's disk utility to have one partition on it with a HFS Standard > filesystem on it. On the filesystem I made a directory called boot. > Put in the directory a vmlinux, yaboot, yaboot.conf, initrd, ofboot.b.
Make sure your kernel recognises. the HFS filesystem. Did you run ybin for this disk? > I use the following commands to display the location of the usb drive > > dev usb0 > ls > pwd > > The commands display the following output > ok > ff9c7700: /[EMAIL PROTECTED] > ok > /[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED],1 ok > > I use the following command in open firmware to try and boot the device. > boot usb0/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:,\boot\yaboot > or > boot usb0/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:2,\boot\yaboot > or > boot /[EMAIL PROTECTED]/usb/@1b,1/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:,\boot\yaboot > or > boot /[EMAIL PROTECTED]/usb/@1b,1/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:2,\boot\yaboot > > After I execute the command I get a long pause, about 17 seconds, then I > get the following error > can't OPEN: usb0/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:,\boot\yaboot > > Does anyone know what I am missing when it comes to booting off usb > devices with an iBook? Maybe you need to do something like: boot usb0/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:,\\:tbxi or boot usb0/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:2,\\:tbxi Martin
