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Re: G4 Mac Mini won't boot install disk

From nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid>
Newsgroups comp.sys.mac.system
Subject Re: G4 Mac Mini won't boot install disk
Date 2018-09-21 19:20 -0400
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID <210920181920119886%nospam@nospam.invalid> (permalink)
References (2 earlier) <po3r6i$sv9$1@solani.org> <210920181827380707%nospam@nospam.invalid> <po3s9b$tch$2@solani.org> <210920181855019276%nospam@nospam.invalid> <po3tii$ufh$1@solani.org>

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In article <po3tii$ufh$1@solani.org>, ErikRS <mac-dane@is.invalid>
wrote:

> >>>>> try booting off an external firewire drive (hd or dvd). a powerpc mac
> >>>>> won't boot from usb.
> >>>>
> >>>> That's again some of your bloody nonsens.:-(! - I've booted from USB
> >>>> drives several times on 3 different G4 QuickSilver - 2x CPU upgraded
> >>>> Dual 1,8ghz + 1x Single 1,25ghz, 3 different MDDs - 1x Dual 1,0ghz, 1x
> >>>> Dual 1,25ghz + 1x Single 1,25ghz (FW400+800) and 2 G5's - 2x Dual
> >>>> 1,8ghz. *ALL* of these are PowerPC Macs!
> >>>
> >>> not os x, you didn't.
> >>
> >> Yes I have... 10.2,6, 10.3.x, 10.4.x + 10.5.x on the two G5's...
> >
> > except you listed g4 macs, which won't boot from usb without a *lot* of
> > openfirmware hacking.
> 
> One mistyping... The Single QS was not a 1,25ghz but a 1,4ghz. All 3 QSs 
> were upgraded with GigaDesigns CPUs. I have not messed around with any 
> kind of open firmware, - but they booted from an external USB drive with 
> clones of the different systems - made with CarbonCopy Cloaner.

bullshit. those macs will not boot os x from usb without mucking around
in openfirmware.

that was fixed just before the intel macs were released, so late model
g5s can boot from usb, but that's the exception, and that would be
later than your 1.8ghz g5.

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G4 Mac Mini won't boot install disk bob prohaska <bp@www.zefox.net> - 2018-09-15 18:19 +0000
  Re: G4 Mac Mini won't boot install disk nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2018-09-15 15:10 -0400
    Re: G4 Mac Mini won't boot install disk ErikRS <mac-dane@is.invalid> - 2018-09-22 00:26 +0200
      Re: G4 Mac Mini won't boot install disk nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2018-09-21 18:27 -0400
        Re: G4 Mac Mini won't boot install disk ErikRS <mac-dane@is.invalid> - 2018-09-22 00:44 +0200
          Re: G4 Mac Mini won't boot install disk nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2018-09-21 18:55 -0400
            Re: G4 Mac Mini won't boot install disk ErikRS <mac-dane@is.invalid> - 2018-09-22 01:06 +0200
              Re: G4 Mac Mini won't boot install disk nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2018-09-21 19:20 -0400
          Re: G4 Mac Mini won't boot install disk Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2018-09-22 07:40 +0000
        Re: G4 Mac Mini won't boot install disk Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2018-09-21 22:56 +0000
          Re: G4 Mac Mini won't boot install disk ErikRS <mac-dane@is.invalid> - 2018-09-22 01:21 +0200
            Re: G4 Mac Mini won't boot install disk Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2018-09-22 07:43 +0000
              Re: G4 Mac Mini won't boot install disk ErikRS <mac-dane@is.invalid> - 2018-09-22 12:19 +0200
                Re: G4 Mac Mini won't boot install disk nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2018-09-22 10:32 -0400
                Re: G4 Mac Mini won't boot install disk ErikRS <mac-dane@is.invalid> - 2018-09-22 20:58 +0200
                Re: G4 Mac Mini won't boot install disk nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2018-09-22 15:05 -0400
                Re: G4 Mac Mini won't boot install disk Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2018-09-22 22:23 +0000
              Re: G4 Mac Mini won't boot install disk dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2018-09-23 14:22 +1200
                Re: G4 Mac Mini won't boot install disk Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2018-09-23 12:13 +0000
                Re: G4 Mac Mini won't boot install disk dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2018-09-24 03:42 +1200
                Re: G4 Mac Mini won't boot install disk ErikRS <mac-dane@is.invalid> - 2018-09-23 20:07 +0200
      Re: G4 Mac Mini won't boot install disk Percival John Hackworth <pjh@nanoworks.com> - 2018-09-22 10:44 -0700
        Re: G4 Mac Mini won't boot install disk ErikRS <mac-dane@is.invalid> - 2018-09-22 21:02 +0200
          Re: G4 Mac Mini won't boot install disk nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2018-09-22 15:05 -0400
  Re: G4 Mac Mini won't boot install disk Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2018-09-15 20:32 +0000
    Re: G4 Mac Mini won't boot install disk bob prohaska <bp@www.zefox.net> - 2018-09-15 22:00 +0000
      Re: G4 Mac Mini won't boot install disk nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2018-09-15 18:21 -0400
      Re: G4 Mac Mini won't boot install disk bob prohaska <bp@www.zefox.net> - 2018-09-30 16:48 +0000

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