• Order of the Butterfly
    Order of the Butterfly
    BatteMan
    Posts: 282 from 2003/2/24
    From: France
    Hi Jacadcaps,

    You wrote this on the MorphOS mailing-list last year and it still works ^^

    Quote:

    First of all, get a 3.1 iso, it has an important bugfix which helps
    resolving boot issues from usb.

    The guide on the French page is needlessly complicated, here's a simplier
    solution:

    1) Get a FAT32 formatted USB stick, best if you format it under the OS of
    your choice

    2) Get a MorphOS 3.1 iso and copy it to the stick. Mount the iso file
    (easy on OSX, MorphOS, and Linux, under Windows - use google, there's a free
    utility from Microsoft that does that) and copy the boot.img file from
    mac_ppc32 directory on the iso to the USB stick

    3) Plug the stick into your Mac, power the Mac on and get into OF (Cmd + Alt
    + O + F). Make sure to plug it directly into onboard USB, don't use hubs,
    etc, this simplifies step 4. Make sure you do NOT have any other USB
    disks/sticks plugged in, you'll only waste time trying to boot from the
    wrong device.

    4) Find out the USB path in of to your stick!
    type:

    dev .aliases properties

    This will give you a list of root USB devices (hubs) found. Usually they're
    named usb0, usb1, ...

    type:

    dev usb0 ls
    dev usb1 ls ...

    until you see something like disk@1 in the list - you've got your path now!

    5) Boot MorphOS 3.1

    type (assuming the disk is at usb0 and is named disk@1):

    boot usb0/disk@1:,\boot.img bi umsd0:mos.iso

    You should see the boot logo in a few seconds. If nothing happens after
    loading, try replugging the usb stick or try a different stick.


    --
    /me boots like this on his Powerbook to upgrade his system (but it doesn't work, yet, on my problematic model of iBook).
    Proud user of MorphOS since 2003 !
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