Re: Building a macppc bootable USB image

[David Brownlee <abs%absd.org@localhost>]

On Sat, 20 Jan 2024 at 06:52, Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Jan 19, 2024 at 09:24:54PM +0000, David Brownlee wrote:
> > I've confirmed that 9.3 and 10.0_RC3 (*) installer ISO images dd'd to
> > a USB key boot on my G4 iMac with  "boot usb0/disk:,\ofwboot.xcf"
>
> The interesting part would be to know if a non-RC or official build
> works the same on your machine (i.e. a random daily build from nycdn).

Just tested with a HEAD and -10 from nycdn.netbsd.org, and neither ISO
image boots when dd'd to a USB key, so we can't just make a plain
iso9660 image.

(This is all on a PowerMac4,5)

For entertainment value I tried creating a standard MBR type 12 msdos
partition on a USB stick, and copying ofwboot.xcf and a kernel onto it
but it also did not boot (I didn't expect it to be that simple :)