it was my impression that PPC machines won't boot from USB drive. I think there is a way to get it to work, but it involves quite a bit of hackery and such.
r On Nov 27, 2007, at 5:42 PM, Matt Frost wrote: > It should, any G4 can do a external hard drive boot. Is the > operating system installed correctly on the external hard drive? If > you try to copy and paste system folders from your internal to your > external, you won't be able to boot. There are invisible folders > associated with the OS that cannot be selected by Finder alone. > > Matt > > > On Nov 27, 2007, at 5:35 PM, cgreen1 wrote: > >> Is that the reason why my G4 PowerBook won't do so? --It's not >> Intel or >> dual core...ccg >> >> >> On 11/27/07 4:05 PM, "b3studios" <b3studios at gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Intel Macs can boot from USB. >>> >>> I still prefer firewire, but they will boot from USB. >>> >>> >>> On Nov 27, 2007, at 3:46 PM, Bill Rising wrote: >>> >>>> On Nov 27, 2007, at 14:21 , Glenn Hoehler wrote: >>>> >>>>> Can I use an USB external drive as a startup drive with OX10.4 or >>>>> 10.5 with an Intel Core 2 computer? >>>>> Can this be done with a firewire external drive? >>>>> I think this worked with firewire on a power mac. >>>> >>>> I don't know if the interface makes a difference, but I've had no >>>> troubles using external Firewire drives (both 400 and 800) as >>>> startup drives on both ppc and core 2 duo Macs. >>>> >>>> Bill_______________________________________________ >>>> The next Louisville Computer Society meeting will >>>> be November 27 at MacAuthority, 128 Breckinridge Lane. >>>> Posting address: MacGroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu >>>> Information: http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> The next Louisville Computer Society meeting will >>> be November 27 at MacAuthority, 128 Breckinridge Lane. >>> Posting address: MacGroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu >>> Information: http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/ >>> macgroup >>> >>> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> The next Louisville Computer Society meeting will >> be November 27 at MacAuthority, 128 Breckinridge Lane. >> Posting address: MacGroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu >> Information: http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup >> > > www.MattFro.com > > _______________________________________________ > The next Louisville Computer Society meeting will > be November 27 at MacAuthority, 128 Breckinridge Lane. > Posting address: MacGroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu > Information: http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.math.louisville.edu/pipermail/macgroup/attachments/20071127/95ce8e72/attachment.html
