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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 2018-09-22 10:32 -0400
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID <220920181032081714%nospam@nospam.invalid> (permalink)
References (3 earlier) <210920181827380707%nospam@nospam.invalid> <slrnpqatpg.300.g.kreme@Snow.local> <po3udr$v26$1@solani.org> <slrnpqbsll.13pa.g.kreme@Snow.local> <po54vu$o5e$1@solani.org>

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In article <po54vu$o5e$1@solani.org>, ErikRS <mac-dane@is.invalid>
wrote:

> >> I don't right now recall which 10.3, 10.4 versions it was, but the G5s
> >> are/were 10.5.8 (I still have the one G5 to be able to run Classic OS
> >> 9.2.2).
> >>
> >> So I'm not wrong. The models mentioned are all PowerPC G4s + the two
> >> G5s. - Read my last answer to nospam, that may explain why...
> >
> > It is possible, as nospam said, that later G5s could boot USB, but no G4
> > could. You are wrong/misremembering.
> 
> In fact I've been working professionally with Macs since 1991 - i.e. 
> right down from the 68k machines and up to nowerdays more complex built 
> hard-/software.

so what. you're still wrong.

> And yes, I HAVE booted the machines mentioned and this is a fact that 
> doesn't change anything.

not os x, you haven't. 

macos 9 probably boots from usb, assuming the mac supports it, except
that most g4s don't.


> >>
> >> My two MacPro1.1 - 2,66ghz + 3,0ghz are booting fine from USB drives
> >> including USB sticks. I found USB to be too slow so now I'm only using
> >> external FW800 backup disks - cloned with CCC...
> >
> > Yeah, I have a MacPro 1,1. It does not boot from USB. I still keep one
> > FW enclosure on the off chance I need to use that machine (I don't).
> >
> > If you are mucking about with custom firmware or some such, then that is
> > something else entirely.
> 
> As written... I didnot change any kind of firmware, and I explicitely 
> wrote that it may have been the GigaDesigns CPU installer software that 
> has changed something.

it didn't.

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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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