[ydl-gen] [YDL5] Install DVD won't boot (bad media?) and related questions

Jon "NeoAmsterdam" Levy YellowDog at NeoAmsterdam.net
Fri Apr 13 11:34:14 MDT 2007


  On Apr 13, 2007, at 1:19 PM, Jon "NeoAmsterdam" Levy wrote...
> I am no expert in Open Firmware or bootloaders (no matter how hard I
> try to be), but this makes sense: the first disc has(had?) to be
> bootable on Old World Macs, but discs 2-4 are needed only when a
> rudimentary Linux is already running.  As a result they are in
> ISO-9660 and thus lack an Apple partition map.

...but omitted...
> If the disc was in fact a PS3 print labeled as an Apple print, the  
> lack of an Apple partition map would not have been a dead-giveaway,  
> but would corroborate that theory.  I am of the impression that  
> PS3s need ISO-9660 or FAT-32 to boot off of.

Sorry about that.
  - NeoAmsterdam


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