Re: A Live Boot Image for the Mac that Talks

[Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list@redhat.com>]

If you have or can access another computer that isn't a mac, I'd check
the drive on that computer to see if it also fails.  If it fails, you
got a bad drive.  Flash drives can come from the factory and either work
temporarily or not at all.  Another possibility may be the usb port to
load the drive is bad so maybe try a different port.  Have you ever
booted a flash drive on that apple computer in the past?  If no, then
you're in new territory.  Apple uses a different disk format and I don't
know how this works with flash drives or if it's not relevant here.  If
you downloaded the sha512 file you'll have to fix its format a string of
' /out' is in that file and needs to be removed.  Then you can check the
iso integrity with sha512sum -c Jenux-xxx.iso.sha512.
If you can access the flash drive not booting it, an integrity check of
the iso on that flash drive after you copy the corrected .sha512 file to
the flash drive could be informative.

On Sat, 1 Feb 2020, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:

> Date: Sat, 1 Feb 2020 18:32:16
> From: Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list@redhat.com>
> To: blinux-list@redhat.com
> Subject: Re: A Live Boot Image for the Mac that Talks
>
> I may be wrong, but I seem to remember instructions to do just that to create
> a bootable source for installing a distribution. Do you know where I can read
> about this subject?? Thanks!
>
>
> Al
>
>
> On 2/1/20 6:07 PM, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:
> > dd is not a good command for burning usb sticks and this is probably why
> > you had a failure.
> >
> > On Sat, 1 Feb 2020, Linux for blind general discussion wrote:
> >
> >> Date: Sat, 1 Feb 2020 18:01:42
> >> From: Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list@redhat.com>
> >> To: blinux-list@redhat.com
> >> Subject: Re: A Live Boot Image for the Mac that Talks
> >>
> >> I suspect I am about to learn something so here's the deal:
> >>
> >> 	I downloaded the iso image and used dd to pour it in to a
> >> thumb drive
> >>
> >> dd if=imagefile of=/dev/sdd in this case and away it went.
> >>
> >> 	Several minutes later, the roughly 1-gig file ended up on
> >> the thumb drive.
> >>
> >> 	The mac is old enough not to have the T2 chip so if the
> >> drive is bootable, it should boot which it does not.
> >>
> >> 	If you plug the drive in, a message pops up stating that
> >> it is unreadable on this computer
> >>
> >>  How do I get the Mac to boot off of that drive?
> >>
> >> Martin McCormick
> >>
> >>
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