Troubles with USB

[Jason Bacon]

I've had similar trouble, which I mentioned on this list in the past.  
The PowerMac is finicky about USB sticks.  It seems that it does work 
with U3 drives and other newer drives.  I was only able to boot from one 
older 2 GB drive that has since burned out, so I'm unable to upgrade at 
the moment, given that my optical drive can't read DVDs.

If you can find a USB stick the same vintage as the PowerMac, your luck 
might change.

     JB

On 3/7/21 10:18 PM, Julio Merino wrote:
> However, here is where the strangeness starts. I want to repartition the
> boot (SSD) drive now... and I just cannot get the installer to work again.
> Using the same image as before and the same USB stick, the installation
> kernel loads without issues from OpenFirmware... but as soon as it starts
> loading /sbin/init, things start failing left and right. It feels as if
> there is I/O corruption when reading from the USB drive given that the
> system reports "invalid binary files" and segfaults everywhere. (I tried
> with another drive and found the same problem. I'm pretty sure the drive is
> good given that it can be read from another system.)


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