On Tue, Nov 28, 2000 at 03:25:18PM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Nov 28, Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> I copied rescue.bin onto a floppy using dd on a unix machine. > >> It also failed to be recognized by my Mac G3. > >> Is it corrupted? > >you cannot boot rescue.bin on a powerpc, instead you need boot-hfs.img > >or something close to that. and that is only for oldworld powerpc > >macs. > Another problem is that the CHRP rescue.bin image is broken. > You have to mount the image and copy zImage on a FAT-formatted floppy to > be able to boot it with OpenFirmware.
i think this may be fixed in boot-floppies 2.2.19 -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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