On 5/4/19 11:16 PM, John Ogness wrote:> Then I would be able to do the expected: > > boot usb0/disk:,\\BootX > > This is all probably special case iBook G4 issues. But I wanted to > mention it since it is pretty obvious a lot of people are tripping over > it.
Did you see this behavior with the GRUB rescue disc as well? Because the installer image uses the exact same mechanism as the rescue image. However, I have not copied these files yet: -r--r--r-- 1 glaubitz users 2623 Apr 30 23:44 .disk_label -r--r--r-- 1 glaubitz users 19 Apr 30 23:44 .disk_label.contentDetails -r--r--r-- 1 glaubitz users 245 Apr 30 23:44 SystemVersion.plist If the GRUB rescue image does not show this problem, then we probably know why. > It would be nice if there was some way to communicate to open firmware > to do MSDOS partition scanning first and that a specified partition > number is an MSDOS partition number. But I have yet to see a way to do > that. Adrian -- .''`. John Paul Adrian Glaubitz : :' : Debian Developer - glaub...@debian.org `. `' Freie Universitaet Berlin - glaub...@physik.fu-berlin.de `- GPG: 62FF 8A75 84E0 2956 9546 0006 7426 3B37 F5B5 F913