On Sat, Apr 17, 2021 at 2:48 AM Rick Thomas <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 16, 2021, at 5:30 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote: > > On 4/16/21 1:57 PM, Johannes Brakensiek wrote: > > > ... > > > Ok, good to know. Then I suppose the Macโs firmware just wonโt detect it > > > if itโs copied to a USB stick? > > > > It could be that the blessing gets lost when putting it onto a USB disk. > > > > I verified that when burnt to a CD, the image will show up in <Option> > > menu with > > an icon (which we can switch to a Debian swirl maybe later). But I > > don't know about > > OpenFirmware at the moment to know how to reproduce this behavior with > > a USB stick. > > I vaguely remember having read somewhere that the "boot with option key" on > PowerPC machines does not examine USB disks for bootable partitions. It does > know about Firewire disks, and ATA/SATA disks, but just not USB disks.
This is likely correct. I experienced the same issue when trying to boot from USB. I just burned a plain old bootable CD and things worked fine. (In the past with the images from January or February). Jeff
