Re: Cannot boot installer on PowerBook6,8

[Sevan Janiyan <venture37%geeklan.co.uk@localhost>]

On 04/12/2017 14:56, Sevan Janiyan wrote:
> On 04/12/2017 14:51, Valery Ushakov wrote:
>> Are these even bootable?  As I recall netbsd makefs is missing some
>> relveant functionality so you cannot make a bootable macppc iso with
>> it.  IIRC for releases releng uses cdrtools mkisofs .
> 
> Yes they are, the difference is that the release ISOs have file names
> which are not mangled. That is, you don't have the names in caps, with a
> ;1 suffix.
> 
> This means you can issue boot cd:,\ofwboot.xcf rather than boot
> cd:,\OFWBOOT.XCF;1

I should clarify, you can boot from the manually from openfirmware but
the images do not boot automatically via the boot menu or the keyboard
shortcut.


Sevan