rescue CD isos

[Peter Jones]

On Thu, 2006-01-19 at 13:24 +0100, shrek-m at gmx.de wrote:
> 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.

Yes, exactly.

> unfortunately this does not work with the ppc fc5t2 #1 and rescue cds 
> because they are not bootable.

Yeah, that's unfortunately, true.  But it does work with boot.iso .
FWIW, Jesse and I hunted down the bug that was causing that and fixed
it, so test3 should have working isos to boot from again.

-- 
  Peter