rescue CD isos

[shrek-m at gmx.de]

Peter Jones wrote:

>On Wed, 2006-01-18 at 20:03 +0100, shrek-m at gmx.de wrote:
>  
>
>>Jesse Keating wrote:
>>
>>>Thanks.  I've made some final changes that should be reflected in
>>>tonight's rescue CDs.  Unfortunately these changes were a bit too late
>>>for FC5Test2, so FC5Test2 PPC CDs and rescueCD are not easily bootable.
>>>One can boot them from openfirmware:
>>>
>>>boot cd:,//ppc/mac/ofboot.b
>>>
>>alt+apple+o+f
>>0 > boot cd:,\ppc\mac\ofboot.b
>>    
>>
>Or for those who can't remember tons of arcana about what path something
>is in, when to use cd:,\ vs  cd:\\, etc., just type "mac-boot" and hold
>down "c" for a little while.
>

this seems to be equal to "c"  while booting the mac.
unfortunately this does not work with the ppc fc5t2 #1 and rescue cds 
because they are not bootable.



----for the memory/archive----

# find  /media/cdrecorder/ -iname  of\*
/media/cdrecorder/ppc/mac/ofboot.b

0 > boot cd:,//ppc/mac/ofboot.b  can´t OPEN: cd:,//ppc/mac/ofboot.b
0 > boot cd://ppc/mac/ofboot.b  can´t OPEN: cd://ppc/mac/ofboot.b
0 > boot cd:,/ppc/mac/ofboot.b  can´t OPEN: cd:,/ppc/mac/ofboot.b

0 > boot cd:,\\ppc\mac\ofboot.b  can´t OPEN: cd:,\\ppc\mac\ofboot.b
0 > boot cd:\\ppc\mac\ofboot.b  can´t OPEN: cd:\\ppc\mac\ofboot.b

0 > boot cd:,\ppc\mac\ofboot.b
Welcome to the ... Fedora Core ... installer!




# find  /media/cdrecorder/ -iname  ya\*
/media/cdrecorder/etc/yaboot.conf
/media/cdrecorder/ppc/chrp/yaboot
/media/cdrecorder/ppc/mac/yaboot
/media/cdrecorder/ppc/ppc32/yaboot.conf
/media/cdrecorder/ppc/ppc64/yaboot.conf


0 > boot cd:,\ppc\mac\yaboot
......,\ppc\mac\yaboot.conf: Unknown or corrupt filesystem
Can´t open config file
Welcome to yaboot ...
boot:
... Unable to open file, Invalid device
boot:



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shrek-m