I am not entirely sure if I have been clear enough.... I have successfully booted 12.04 and 14.04 from USB numerous times on two machines. the usb# depends on which USB port you are using. This is a tried and true method, and Open Firmware does support it. Open Firmware allows you to set how the computer boots, and which drive it boots from.
I was wondering if anyone else had tried this yet that a.) knows how to do this b.) has had success doing it in the alpha I have done this more than once. This is something that has worked reliably in the past few releases. It currently doesn't work. So I am wondering if it will even boot from a DVD... I don't want to waste a DVD if it wont work anyhow. Is this more clear? On 06/29/2014 01:27 AM, Anthony Hoppe wrote: > > I do not believe booting via USB is supported by Apple PPC firmware, > period. I don't have much experience with installing Linux on PPC > hardware, but I do know that with Mac OS you can only boot via FireWire. > > Hope this helps! > > On Jun 28, 2014 7:37 PM, "Israel" <israeld...@gmail.com > <mailto:israeld...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > Has anyone tried booting this as a USB yet? > For some reason, I am completely unable to boot it. > I have been trying various open firmware commands, but it simply > cannot > boot. > I downloaded the Alpha the other day, with no success on booting. > I zsynced it today and MD5SUM'd it. > > So... here is the problem > > boot usb1/@1:2, \\yaboot > wont work... > I get this helpful? message > > > MAC-PARTS: LOAD <noninterposed> not supportedload-size=0 adler32=1 > LOAD-SIZE is too small > ok > > I tried usb2 and usb3 on two machines and then I boot to yaboot, > on the HD. > Anyone have any thoughts about what is going on? Any OF commands I > could run to find out more info here? > > -- > Regards > > > -- > Lubuntu-users mailing list > Lubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com <mailto:Lubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com> > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/lubuntu-users > -- Regards
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