boot g4 from hard drive - USB or Firewire?

Hi, I have a friend with an iBook G4 with startup issues. I created a bootable ipod and checked that it would boot my macbook and it did no problem. So I sent him the ipod to boot from in order to get some of his data off the hard drive, but it wouldn't show up when he held down alt(option) on booting.

Then I realized that I had partition it as GUID instead of Apple Partition Map. So redid it as that but when the G4 had booted from the disc and we tried to install 10.4 on the ipod it wouldn't allow installing to it as it said the drive was not bootable. I made sure it was partitioned as Mac OSX (Journaled) and with Apple Partition Map - yet why was it not bootable. Got another external hard drive and it did the same thing.

I found conflicting reports on g4 booting from hard drive - does it have to be a firewire drive in order to boot it or can it boot from a USB drive?

ibook g4, Mac OS X (10.4)

Posted on Mar 5, 2009 2:20 AM

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