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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
