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.


Thanks,
 S

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