FWIW on most of my machines "boot ud:,\\yaboot" will boot from USB, but not all of them.
On Thu, 26 Sept 2024 at 12:47, Steffen Grunewald <steffen.grunew...@aei.mpg.de> wrote: > > On Tue, 2024-09-24 at 12:42:02 +0100, Mark Cave-Ayland wrote: > > > 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,\ > > None of them (for usb1, including "dir usb1" and "dir usb1:") worked, > "DIR method failed" being the uniform result. > > Should I be able to run some "dir cd:..." (same image) successfully? > > Thanks, > Steffen >
