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Subject: Re: Usb image does not boot
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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.