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Ok I have a Power Mac G5. Is it possible to boot from a usb external drive or stick? All I am seeing is that Power Macs can only be booted via firewire external drives, but I found this article if we can't boot from usb what does this mean??? https://support.apple.com/kb/TA25908 Also is it possible to create a APM bootable partition on an hdd in windows 7?
PowerMac, Mac OS X (10.5)
Hi, and Welcome to the forums!
Yes, below I will provide some links so you too can learn how to boot a PowerPC mac off of USB.
http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20060301112336384
http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20101011105729488
http://blog.campodoro.org/?p=43
Of course.. your milage will vary... To sum this all up... You would need to go into Open Firmware by holding down: Option+Command+O+F. Once in OF, you need to type devalias. This will list your hardware devices connected and installed inside your Power Mac.
Next look for "ud"... ud means: USB DEVICE... Once you find ud, then type the following.. make sure your USB device is in place.
boot ud:,\\:tbxi - This will boot Mac OS X or any bootable OS X disc, providing it works with PowerPC. You can also use this to load Diskwarrior or other applications which have a Mac OS X System folder.
You are familar with the open firmware method?
Yes, thanks. 🙂
And yes, my older USB1.1 eMacs still see USB boot as choices & work, funny thing is the USB2 eMac used to until the Firmware reset.
G5 Boot From USB external drive or Stick?
