There is great information on usb booting on the ubuntupowerpc wiki if you want more detail. Howto boot apple powerpcs from a usb drive in open firmware. Boot from usb ibook g4 power pc i recently got an old ibook g4 512mb ram 1. Booting your ibook g4 from a usb stick jay taylors notes. Starting with the release of the agp g4 towers, macs gained the ability to boot from usbconnected media in general. Just follow the info in this link, and i know you will find the answer to your prayers.
Mar, 20 breathing new life into a sluggish ibook g4 well maybe not as much new life. Its best to use one of the builtin ports, rather than going through an external hub. Let me first explain that i am completely mac illiterate. How to tell if your powerpcbased mac officially supports booting from usb storage. Revive a powerpc mac running linux the mac observer. Next to my pc is a 2 month old ibook that i traded my last pc for. Apple ibook g4 wont boot windows 7 setup usb or cd windows. Installing new os on powerbook g4 without usb key or cd super. Insert usb stick in the computer to be tested, boot holding the option key and select the aht. If you have a powerpc most models it wont boot from a usb but i found a ben collins blog that teaches you how to do it, step by step. Oct 05, 2015 another reference thanks sherry haibara for sharing with me to deliberately boot usb msc is booting your ibook g4 from a usb stick by ben collins. Booting your ibook g4 from a usb stick ben collins.
For some reason, historically, mac os x specifically wasnt able to boot from a usb connected device on a ppc mac. It wouldnt boot from the usb when holding down option or c though i could get a menu. The open firmware of magic to make it boot from the stick is easier that way. I have the leopard iso, but none of my dvd drives will burn dual layer, so i needed to use the usb route. Another reference thanks sherry haibara for sharing with me to deliberately boot usb msc is booting your ibook g4 from a usb stick by ben collins. How to boot ppc powermacs g3, g4, g5 from a usb stick or. Boot the mac while simultaneously holding down the, o, and f keys its not easy.
I was wondering if its possible to boot my ibook from an external drive, and if there is any dyi instruction on how to. Chrome os chromium os has never supported powerpc and probably will never do so. Keep the c key pressed until you see the big grey apple logo on the screen. Sep 21, 2014 the ibook g4 is not an intel mac, so you cannot use it to run windows natively using apples bootcamp software, nor can you use parallels desktop for mac software. How to install ubuntu mate remix on a powerpc computer sudod. Ibook g4 usb boot apple ios os help fix mac iphone ipad. Announced in may 2001 at a special press event, the ibook dual usb brought the design aesthetic of the powerbook g4 to the consumer level. Power the computer on or restart it if its already running and immediately. Last year i unsuccessfully tried to find information on how to boot my ibook g4 from a usb. Forrest is correct, that ibook g4 is powerpc, not intel based so wrong cpu architecture. Booting your ibook g4 from a usb stick so i spent the better half of the night trying to figure out how to make my ibook g4 boot from a usb stick. Booting a vintage ibook g4 from a usb flash drive demonic. If you are using the older powermac g4 machines, the usb fat32 partition size might need to be limited to 250mb. If you have one of these, you need an external terminal or another pc that.
Ibook g3 dual usb mac ox install without cd drive ppc. Installing ubuntu on macintosh powerpc, no cddrive, usb. Now, plug the usb stick into a port on the mac you plan to install. Apple ibook g4 wont boot windows 7 setup usb or cd i want to install windows se7en on my apple ibook but i cant. You can also type dev ls to get a treeshaped listing of devices and see which usb has a disk leaf node. Member since jan 18, 2006 posts 1,868 your macs specs g4 cube rep power 15. The usb stick is not compatible with the openfirmware. I imaged the dvd to an 8gb usb stick in disk utility. When the x86 macs were released they could boot os x from usb media, but ppc machines still couldnt. Once done, simply eject the usb stick and insert it in the usb port on your clamshell. How to boot a mac from usb drive with pictures wikihow.
Jan 11, 2009 ibook g4 os x boot problem this is my 1st mac experience, trying to help my son get his ibook g4 to boot. This entry was posted in uncategorized and tagged boot ibook from cd, boot powerbook from usb, how to boot ibook from external hd, how to boot ibook from usb, how to boot mac from usb, open firmware on june 28, 2019 by demonicsweaters. Ibook g4 usb boot apple ios os help fix mac iphone. Got there while trying to boot a ubuntu from a usb stick. These things are expensive, so i traded instead, but there is always a flaw. How to install ubuntu mate remix on a powerpc computer. Apple ibook g4 wont boot windows 7 setup usb or cd. Some older g3 models can access open firmware via an external terminal. I know to how to trick open firmware into booting from usb, however, i need to create my usb. So i used osxs disk utility to write the aformentioned iso image to a usb stick and went back to step 1 of ben collins instructions and success showed its pretty little face at step 4 i.
The first cr48 chromebook had a intel atom processor, now chrome os has support for arm as well as intel x86. Lets call it an ibook g4 on dialysis, anyway the main objective was to erase and reinstall osx 10. I recently installed an ssd into my ibook g4, and im gonna try to put debian 8. A 2008 imac i found in the trash runs off an external hd. Once you see the screen go white with some text on it, you can release those keys. I did some research online and found sites that explain how to switch out the hard drive, but the trouble is i just dont have the time. So your solution to use virtual pc is the only real solution though it will run slow. Flashed the iso to the usb stick, booted the ibook into open firmware, and got the same error. Put the usb drive in the ibook, then turn it on and hold down apple key, option, o and f keys right after you hear the mac chime. Breathing new life into a sluggish ibook g4 home of the.
All apple power macintosh systems up to and including the g4 use processors supported by this kernel. In the past i used a firewire ipod to install tiger and os x 10. The line targeted entrylevel, consumer and education markets, with lower specifications and prices than the powerbook, apples higherend line of laptop computers. Jan 17, 2015 flashed the iso to the usb stick, booted the ibook into open firmware, and got the same error.
Prepare the usb stick as described in step 2 and retry. The ibook dual usb was much smaller than its predecessor, and included a faster g3 processor, more ram, vga out, stereo speakers, and a higher resolution screen. It was the first mass consumer product to offer wifi network connectivity, which was then branded by apple as airport. The usb stick was formated using my wifes imac with the ability to boot a ppc based computer. I have done this many times since i posted this question. Create a bootable debian usb stick for powerpc from. So i spent the better half of the night trying to figure out how to make my ibook g4 boot from a usb stick. Sep 12, 2012 last year i unsuccessfully tried to find information on how to boot my ibook g4 from a usb. For this to work for me, i had to ensure there was no disc in the cd drive of the clamshell. I did format the usb stick as apple partition map first in case that makes a difference. From what ive read, intel macs support booting from usb drives in addition to firewire drives. Oct 31, 2014 the usb stick was formated using my wifes imac with the ability to boot a ppc based computer.
If you cant use unetbootin because your system is out of date, instead of using unetbootinor similar packaged make a bootable usb toolsyou can. Once you stick in a real hard drive, itll probably run at a decent speed, i used to use linux on an ibook g4 as my main computer i was kinda broke a few years ago, and it ran decently as long as you didnt try watching youtube or go on really jsheavy pages. There is a link on matts page to instructions on how to build a usb stick which will boot on the 32bit efi, and install a 64bit version. Installing ubuntu on macintosh powerpc, no cddrive, usb boot. Create a bootable debian usb stick for powerpc from windows. For some reason, historically, mac os x specifically wasnt able to boot from a usbconnected device on a ppc mac. Boot your powerpc from a usb for mac powerpc mac powerpc. It is the only way to boot the machine from anything but the hard disk or the cdrom. I know to how to trick open firmware into booting from usb, however, i need to create my usb stick. Starting with the release of the agp g4 towers, macs gained the ability to boot from usb connected media in general.