Non-booting PPC DVD

Colin Charles byte at aeon.com.my
Fri Mar 18 08:11:37 UTC 2005


On Thu, 2005-03-17 at 21:47 -0800, Sean Earp wrote:
> I just ran headfirst into bug 151234  
> (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=151234) whereby  
> the FC4T1 DVD is not bootable. (whoops!)  Maybe now that Linus Torvalds  
> is using a Power Mac  
> (http://news.com.com/Torvalds+switches+to+Apple/2100-1003_3 
> -5606030.html) he can help troubleshoot some of these issues ;)

Maybe; he's been using one for a while, and last I recall, it was a
Yellow Dog based machine

> In any case, does anyone have any instructions on making the install  
> work on a Power Mac?  I would love to help report bugs, but it's hard  

Basically look for a boot.iso that matches your arch, after loopback
mounting the dvd, and then do an nfs install with the ISO image

> to do when I can't install the OS in the first place.  I have seen some  
> references to mounting the ISO and extracting the boot CD and/or using  
> Paul's USB Boot Image (http://people.redhat.com/pnasrat/ppcboot.img)  
> but when I attempt to mount the ISO or the boot image using the Disk  
> Utility on OS X, I get a message that there are no mountable  
> filesystems.

I'll re-write the wonderful install howto (which should hopefully go
away soon), and post information about htat here

> For that matter, the burned DVD is not readable from within OS X  
> (although the i386 version is...)

Thats odd
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