Guys, thank you very much for your feedback!
@Andreas_Wolf, Amigaharry2:
I understand what you mean, but
my problem is:
1. I have no running MorphOS here, i.e.
I cannot format my USB stick under MorphOS (= no SFS partition possible).
2. My Mac Mini G4 has just 2 USB ports which I use for my keyboard and the USB stick (USB hubs do not work, I tred that already), so
I cannot have 2 USB sticks simultaneously running on my Mac Mini G4.
3. My Mac Mini G4 has a broken CD/DVD drive, so
I cannot boot from a burned CD of the .iso image file.
4. What I have on my Mac Mini G4 is a HDD with 2 partitions with
Mac OS X 10.4 and Mac OS X 10.5. Therefore that leaves me to format my USB stick with the filesystems:
HFS, FAT32.
5. I would like to create a multiboot USB stick with all installable operation systems for my Mac Mini G4 (Mac OS X (Server), MacOS 9, Debian Linux 8 and MorphOS) which all require to have the USB stick formatted with the
APM partition scheme (= no MBR).
Your tips are very useful when I get so far that I can install MorphOS on the HDD (HFS-boot-partition + SFS-system-partition) or when I have already a MorphOS system running already to create a SFS partition on the USB stick (what I unfortunately cannot with my setup).
I would rather stick with the method "boot.img+.iso-file" if that is possible.
@jacadcaps:
Quote:
"You can just place the ISO file on the same partition as boot.img (so HFS). Just remember that to boot the iso file you need to specify a path using the device name, NOT volume name. So bi=dh0:mos.iso and not bi=system:mos.iso."
So far I understand the documentation pages, the bootloader "boot.img" cannot boot from a HFS partition but from a FAT32 partition and the documentation also says that Open Firmware supports loading from HFS and FAT32 partitions (see links [1], [2]).
I made another try to get it boot from a APM/FAT32 partition:
Code:
APM/FAT32 - single partition
Apple Partition Map
# diskutil list
/dev/disk1
#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER
0: Apple_partition_scheme *32.0 GB disk1
1: Apple_partition_map 32.3 KB disk1s1
2: DOS_FAT_32 UNTITLED1 31.8 GB disk1s3
# copied contents from folder "/mac_ppc32/" of "morphos-3.11.iso" and "morphos-3.11.iso" itself to the APM/FAT32 partition.
# ls -la /Volumes/UNTITLED1/
drwxrwxrwx@ 1 user staff 16384 Sep 21 09:54 .
drwxrwxrwt@ 6 root admin 204 Sep 21 09:54 ..
-rwxrwxrwx@ 1 user staff 46752 Mar 1 2013 VolumeIcon.icns
-rwxrwxrwx@ 1 user staff 1501436 Jul 4 05:03 boot.img
-rwxrwxrwx@ 1 user staff 1100 Jul 4 05:45 boot.txt
-rwxrwxrwx@ 1 user staff 1852 Jul 4 05:45 bootinfo.txt
-rwxrwxrwx@ 1 user staff 2657 Jul 4 05:03 macofboot
-rwxrwxrwx@ 1 user staff 258048000 Jul 18 13:13 morphos.iso
[FAILED] boot ud:,\boot.img bi umsd0:morphos.iso
[FAILED] boot ud:,\boot.img bi dh0:morphos.iso
(rotating text-cursor)
load-size=16e8fc adler32=bd628950
ELF loaded
DO-QUIESENCE
[STOPS HERE, Kernel loaded: ctrl-opt-opt works as reset combination]
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Attachment - used links:* MorphOS Library - Open Firmware: [1]
https://library.morph.zone/Open_Firmware
* MorphOS Library - Filesystems: [2]
https://library.morph.zone/Filesystems
