BSD Install ISO will not boot on Low End G3

Nathan Whitehorn nwhitehorn at freebsd.org
Wed Feb 2 20:22:14 UTC 2011


On 02/02/11 13:55, Peter Grehan wrote:
>> The correct command sequence is:
>> boot cd:,\BOOT\LOADER.;1 cd:0
>
>  Works on a g5 iMac, though I get a hang just after the teken message.

Weird. Is this the 64-bit or the 32-bit ISO?

>  Does the bsdinstaller CD have the same issue with hard-links that the 
> rescue CD has ? i.e. prevents the hybrid HFS/ISO9660 format from being 
> used ?

Worse. In addition to that problem, mkisofs is actively corrupting some 
files (/usr/bin/id, for instance) in the ISO9660 part of the disk when I 
try to make a hybrid disk.
-Nathan


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