Re: Booting from USB Drive

2009-10-02 Thread Gunther Furtado
Hi, 2009/10/2 Shawn H Corey : > Hi, > > I have a PowerBook G4.  Is there any way to get it to boot from USB drive. >  I can set it up but I need the correct initrd.gz to make it work. > > Has anyone tried this?  Can anyone suggest a web site? > Yes, it is possible. I''ve done it in an ibook g3 I

Re: Booting from USB Drive

2009-10-02 Thread Shawn H Corey
Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: AFAIK it's possible from within OpenFirmware. But there are no easy aliases to access your USB drive. This you'll have to dig into OpenFirmware commands. Probably you will also need a HFS partition with yaboot on it on your stick because OpenFirmware can only read from

Re: Booting from USB Drive

2009-10-02 Thread Rogério Brito
Hi, Shawn. On Oct 02 2009, Shawn H Corey wrote: > Is there any way to get it to boot from USB drive. I don't really know, but can you use a firewire device instead? If so, that would be supported by a good amount of Macs. > I can set it up but I need the correct initrd.gz to make it work. Well,

Re: Booting from USB Drive

2009-10-02 Thread Gaudenz Steinlin
On Fri, Oct 02, 2009 at 09:59:58AM -0400, Shawn H Corey wrote: > Hi, > > I have a PowerBook G4. Is there any way to get it to boot from USB > drive. I can set it up but I need the correct initrd.gz to make it > work. > > Has anyone tried this? Can anyone suggest a web site? AFAIK it's possibl

Booting from USB Drive

2009-10-02 Thread Shawn H Corey
Hi, I have a PowerBook G4. Is there any way to get it to boot from USB drive. I can set it up but I need the correct initrd.gz to make it work. Has anyone tried this? Can anyone suggest a web site? -- Just my 0.0002 million dollars worth, Shawn Programming is as much about organiza