BSD Install ISO will not boot on Low End G3

Super Bisquit superbisquit at gmail.com
Wed Feb 2 20:42:49 UTC 2011


I mounted the 8.1 boot-only cd and noticed that there is  a boot directory
before any other directories.

On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 3:31 PM, Super Bisquit <superbisquit at gmail.com>wrote:

> How did you make the 9.0 SNAPSHOT that worked for me last year?
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> On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 3:27 PM, Super Bisquit <superbisquit at gmail.com>wrote:
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>> I'm using the January 30, 2011 release.  Using mount -o loop /path/to/iso
>> /mount/directory doesn't show any hfs boot areas on the first level
>> directory. There is boot1.hfs on the second level directory in boot.
>>
>> Past installs were with April 2010 9.0 SNAPSHOT and 8.1 release.
>> never could get the rescue to work on the G3. It's not a big hassle to do
>> an install using the howto.
>>
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>> On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 2:55 PM, Peter Grehan <grehan at freebsd.org> wrote:
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>>> 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.
>>>
>>>  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
>>> ?
>>>
>>> later,
>>>
>>> Peter.
>>>
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