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Boot from a usb flash drive?

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tuna9720

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Well is that even possible, I've been searching this , and there are many threads out there saying that it won't work with a power pc , only on intel macs. And a few is saying it does boot..

Somehow I do remember I did get that to boot from a usb drive , for some reason it doesn't work now when I restart and hit the option button , it doesn't give that choice..

So anyways, am I just dreaming , and is that not going to work at all?
 
tom vilsack

tom vilsack

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yes osx can't boot from from usb thumb drive with ppc....i did however manager to install os 9 on thumb drive and it will boot...go figure....
 
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chrismacguy

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Heavertron said:
This is why I thought about getting an old Firewire iPod. Great for backup / recovery purposes
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Heh.. I thought about that too, but then went the whole hog and just bought a couple more PowerMac Desktops I can use as boot drives via FW Target Mode.... Admittedly not the smallest option, but the line of Towers does look quite good.
 
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max¥¥

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Aug 7, 2008
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Over there....
SuperJudge said:
Yeah, but you have to dork around in OpenFirmware to get it to work right and it doesn't always work. See here for an example.

Oddly enough, I seem to recall that the Yikes! G4s can boot from USB but not Firewire.
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With some, not with others, some will boot usb just by holding option during boot
 
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