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Date:      Sun, 20 Jan 2013 19:01:59 -0600
From:      Nathan Whitehorn <nwhitehorn@freebsd.org>
To:        freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Usb image does not boot
Message-ID:  <50FC9387.4020609@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <CA%2BWntOu-efJwyFRjX1UMjTuTG3a5swMVxL7YmTiLo=CzKyF_Mw@mail.gmail.com>
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On 01/20/13 18:39, Super Bisquit wrote:
> I've used the forth prompt to set the boot device for usb@18/disk@1.
> Maybe the usb disk needs to be set up the same way a normal disk does
> with an HFS boot partition followed by the UFS partition.
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It actually is set up that way. Some macs can be very temperamental with
the USB image. On some systems, if you dd the CD image to a USB stick,
it will work. Only the CD, on actual CD media, is really reliable though.



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