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Q: Booting from external hard drive USB 2.0

I have an iBook G4 collecting dust in my garage because the internal hard drive is dead.  I want to give it to my cousin just to surf the web so I took it to the genius bar and they were able to boot it from an external hd.  Yesterday I purchased a 250 GB WD Passport external hd for $29 at Target.  I was able to partition and format the hd from my MacBook Pro and have it PowerPC ready.  Finally I was successful in installing Mac OS X Tiger onto it.  Now that I am trying to boot from it on the iBook G4, I get nothing but the blinking folder with the question mark.

 

I have searched the forums and most people are quick to respond with the answer that a firewire hd is the only way to boot but I am hoping there is SOME other way around it, even if it means a lot of extra steps.  Any help will be greatly appreciated.  Thanks!

iBook, Mac OS X (10.4)

Posted on Jul 23, 2011 10:46 PM

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