On Mar 13, 2012, at 8:16 PM, Jonas Lopez wrote:
G4 USB external hd will not start up 10.5
Yes, this is true.
Only a very few of the USB 1.1 Macs can boot from USB, only the
"colored" iMacs & iBooks, and none of the G4's can boot from USB
AFAIK. You'll need an external enclosure with both USB 2.0 & Firewire,
and boot the G4 from Firewire. If your Intel MacBook has Firewire, you
could get by with Firewire only, otherwise you'll need both USB2 &
Firewire.
Leopard 10.5 is the only version of OS X that can boot both PPC Macs &
Intel Macs. You must format the HD as GUID, and it will boot both PPC
& Intel Macs.
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