At 8:33 AM -0700 10/4/05, Bruce Johnson wrote:
On Oct 4, 2005, at 8:10 AM, Ron Stuart wrote:
I have a G4 Sawtooth running 10.3.9, 768 mb ram and would like to
know if I can boot from an external USB drive. The drive is an ATA
in an USB enclosure. The drive was set on master and nothing. It
will not boot up and when I go into System Preferences and select
it as the boot drive, then try to restart it just boings. Is it
possible in someway to use this as a startup disk. Checked archives
but found nothing recently pertaining to this.
No. AFAIK no Mac boots from USB, certainly nothing before the G5's
do. It will boot from a firewire drive, so if you get a FW enclosure
this will work.
Not so. I've booted G3 iMacs from USB, but OS 9 only, same setup,
same disk, OS X wouldn't boot. Which was something of a bummer as
I'd got the USB/FW drives specifically to boot some systems (without
FW) under USB.
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