On 08/30/2012 03:31 AM, Rick Thomas wrote: > > On Aug 29, 2012, at 11:30 PM, Milan Kupcevic wrote: > >> On 08/29/2012 08:48 PM, Rick Thomas wrote: >>> >>> When booting the Debian netinst powerpc installer from a USB flash >>> disk you may see a mesage >>> WARNING: Bootstrap partition type is wrong: "Apple_HFS" >>> type should be: "Apple_Bootstrap" >>> >>> This does not occur when booting the same iso from a physical CD-ROM. >>> >>> Ignoring the warning does not seem to cause any problems. >>> >>> Any idea what makes it do that? Can if be fixed? Should it be >>> documented if it can't be fixed? >>> >> >> The warning message is likely coming from Open Firmware. It seems that >> it expects to find a properly partitioned hard drive connected to the >> USB connector you are trying to boot from. It does not expect to find a >> hybrid CD/DVD Apple_HFS partition there. >> >> M > > Is there a way to prepare the USB stick so it will look like what the OF > is expecting? Since it doesn't seem to do any harm, I suppose it's just > a cosmetic bug, but it would be nice if it didn't complain. >
We could explore it. We could format a USB stick the same way a bootable hard drive is formatted in PowerPC Macs and see what happens. M -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org