Keep the key pressed until bootable volumes are found.Įdit: Not sure if Tiger will run properly from a (only)16GB drive. I am not sure when (with which Mac model this was introduced), but since many years one can choose the volume to boot from when you do a startup with option key pressed. When running MacOSX, you can set the the drive as Startup Disk in System Preferences.Ĥ. (A simple copy will not produce a functional OSX volume.)ģ. Make a clone using the Restore feature in Disk Utility, or with an application like SuperDuper! or Carbon Copy Cloner. (Apple Partition Map is needed to boot a PPC Mac.)Ģ.

Use Disk Utility to partition the drive (also if only for one partition) with Apple Partition Map (see options in Partition tab in Disk Utility) and in Mac OS Extended (Journaled) format. Tiger will boot from any volume that is treated properly for that purpose.ġ. not OSX-related.Īs soon as the cloning is complete, I'm going to try this open firmware command. to my understanding, Yaboot is Linux-related. for one thing, all the tutorials on the web involve Yaboot, which my fresh install of Tiger doesn't have. however, I'm sure I don't have/don't know the proper open firmware commands to point to the proper location on the USB device. I'm cloning my HDD, which has a totally fresh install of Tiger and all the updates to my 16 GB flash drive just to see if I can boot it from Open Firmware. I'm wondering if anyone has experience in booting Mac OS X 10.3-10.4.11 (PPC only) off a USB flash drive of a a 'large' capacity (in particular, I have a 16 GB flash drive). I was able to boot from it from the Open Firmware prompt (CMD+OPT+O+F). ISO (really, just a minimal Debian install) to the USB flash drive.

All I did was use the terminal command 'dd' to burn (yes, burn) the contents of the Linux miniature. I have installed MintPPC (Linux) on my iMac G3 with merely a USB flash drive (1GB capacity). IMac G3/600 Snow, slot-loading, Firewire ports, 1GB ram, 80GB HDD, DVD drive, and 2 USB flash drives.

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