PowerMac G5 not displaying anything!

OK, good luck, glad we could help! 🙂

Nice work on figuring out the HD beep BDAqua.

Good luck with it bpali2001 🙂

Most PPC Macs cannot boot from USB, but what did you use to burn the DVD on the PC?

BDAqua wrote:

Most PPC Macs cannot boot from USB, but what did you use to burn the DVD on the PC?

Have you got any documentation to back this up? As far as I can see Apple only document USB booting on Intel Macs.

I have booted G5's from USB & the kids over on MacOXHints were doing it back in 2006…

http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20061017084322177

http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20060301112336384

I know it is tough to know which models will boot USB, it seems to be particular versions of open firmware, so if you have some info that says 'Mac x,x' can't boot from USB it would be appreciated.

bpali2001 wrote:

another freakin problem lol

i burned the dmg, iso, cdr image onto a dvd in the apple map thingie format so ppcs can boot from it. that does not appeared in the alt menu at startup. i tried putting leopard onto my usb thumb drive. tried every format every way i could possibly do it but none of em were listed in the foot menu of my g5.

need some help again:/

Where are you getting the image of Leopard from? How did you burn it?

It should be a case of directly burning the disk image in Disk Utility (not the mounted image). You shouldn't have to tweak any partition types if the disk image was created from the Leopard image correctly.

What does the contents of the DVD look like?

BDAqua, is correct about USB booting - it is unclear wether this model will boot from USB, you will need to use Firewire or image the install disk onto an internal disk.

I know it is tough to know which models will boot USB, it seems to be particular versions of open firmware, so if you have some info that says 'Mac x,x' can't boot from USB it would be appreciated.

Must be some Firmware version, no known list, but for me personally...

G5 Quad will not, even with the Single User commands.

3 Mini 1.42s, never tried.

2 QS G4s, would with the Single User commands.

3 MDs, never tried.

eMac 1.42, yes from either Startup Disk CP or alt boot... until I did a Firmware reset-all, then only via Single User commands, disappeared from Startup Disk CP & alt boot.

eMac 1.0, yes via alt boot.

eMac 800, yes via alt boot.

iMac 600, yes, OS9 or OSX from Startup Disk CP, possibly due to Intech Drivers installed.

I can't remember all the rest, have heard of some Powerbooks that can reliably do it, also, sometimes it'll show in Startup Disk CP but refuse to boot, whenever I've seen it on alt boot it works.

And of course I've seen many replies saying any PPC Mac can do it using the Single User commands, but that hasn't been true for me for ALL. 🙂

Were you using the G5's internal drive or the USB external drive to try to boot the G5, via DVD?

What does this show in Terminal with the DVD inserted?

bless --verbose --info /Volumes/Mac\ OS\ X\ Install\ DVD/

You may need to delete the path & drag & drop the DVD from the Desktop to autofill the correct one (your disk may be named differently).

You probably should own the disk if you want to use the OS!

🙂 flashback…

PPC iMac - 10.4.11 Booting from USB Drive

You need to compile a list somewhere.

Github maybe? I can't recollect what spec the G5 was.

You need to compile a list somewhere.

I'll have to amend that list, too bad most of those are gone & I can't verify my memory!