Yo! I'm lost trying to make mental notes of my actual notes, but im om it and wont give 'much rest' till im halfway there, my best suggestion is to use OpenFirmware 'truckery' and boot grub to boot the proper ISO or env?
On Tue, 24 Sep 2024, 13:42 Mark Cave-Ayland, <mark.cave-ayl...@ilande.co.uk> wrote: > On 24/09/2024 10:21, Steffen Grunewald wrote: > > > 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. > > 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,\ > > > ATB, > > Mark. > >
