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G4 Powerbook, HDD swap / external boot?
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I had to boot in open firmware and change start-up permissions but managed to boot through USB and clone my old drive in the end. Method for booting a USB drive (through online research, I am no expert!):
Thanks all for your assistance!
I had to boot in open firmware and change start-up permissions but managed to boot through USB and clone my old drive in the end. Method for booting a USB drive (through online research, I am no expert!):
- In DU click on volume and find out partition number by pressing “Info” (i.e. 3)
- Boot holding Command+Option+O+F
- Type dev / ls and take note of disk volume (i.e. /pci@f2000000/usb@1b/disk@1 in my case)
- Type setenv boot-device /pci@f2000000/usb@1b/disk@1:3,\\:tbxi (where 3 is the partition number)
- Type printenv boot-device and check boot device has changed from hd to /pci@f2000000/usb@1b/disk@1:3
- Type mac-boot and cross fingers
Thanks all for your assistance!
Update:
I had to boot in open firmware and change start-up permissions but managed to boot through USB and clone my old drive in the end. Method for booting a USB drive (through online research, I am no expert!):
- In DU click on volume and find out partition number by pressing Info (i.e. 3)
- Boot holding Command+Option+O+F
- Type dev / ls and take note of disk volume (i.e. /pci@f2000000/usb@1b/disk@1 in my case)
- Type setenv boot-device /pci@f2000000/usb@1b/disk@1:3,\\:tbxi (where 3 is the partition number)
- Type printenv boot-device and check boot device has changed from hd to /pci@f2000000/usb@1b/disk@1:3
- Type mac-boot and cross fingers
Thanks all for your assistance!
Nice, good you got it to boot of USB.
Somewhat related, I used the setenv command in OF to set verbose mode, got an error- setenv command not found-WTF