Subject: Re: iBook P1 boot device?
To: None <ball@cyberspace.org, ctribo@dtcc.edu>
From: Andy Ball <ball@cyberspace.org>
List: port-macppc
Date: 12/04/2005 18:21:35 
Hello Chris,                                         

   CT> New World (OpenFirmware > 3) machines can't boot in this
     > manner. They need to boot from an HFS/HFS+/MSDOS partition with
     > an Apple Partition Map. Just using sysinst does not a bootable
     > system make on new world machines, unfortunately.             

Is the system disk able to make a suitable partition and filesystem?
If not, then I just turned this iBook into a paperweight until I'm 
able to obtain a suitable MacOS disk.

- Andy Ball