Today, just for fun, i rebooted my powerbook g4 with the usb drive. I eventually gave up and decided to wipe the hard drive and do a reinstall of the system. When i open disk repair, the external drive is there the. Plug in your cd drive, and have the openbsd macppc cd inside. Looking through mactracker, only the original powerbook g4 jan 2001 to oct 2001 would be old enough to boot from 9. Some older g3 models can access open firmware via an external terminal. It was built later by freescale, after motorola spun off its.
Dec 02, 2017 booting morphos from live cd duration. Forces powerbooks to reset their screen to default size helpful if youve. The wrinkle is that the builtin cd r drive no longer works. It should make no difference what brand of usb keyboard you use, just be aware that there may be some key mapping differences. And it boils down to following these two steps after creating the bootable usb flash drive. So i tried drive 10 from an external firewire drive. I had the same problem recently broken internal cd on my powerbook g4 ti, and heres how i got kubuntulinux installed from a kubuntu 6. Powerbook g4 does not recognize hard drive macos forum ccm.
By holding optionalt, i used to get a boot screen, but i dont get that now, when i started trying this dvd. Howto boot apple powerpcs from a usb drive in open firmware. A bootlable copy ccc or superduper can only be used with a external drive with firewire because usb is too slow. D and i wanted to install ubuntu via usb the iso doesnt fit on a cd and the ibook doesnt read dvds, ive tried. Oct 25, 2007 hi the disc drive on my powerbook g4 is no longer working it just spits the discs back out immediately.
How do i boot the computer from a panther cd in the. Booting from cd hold down the c key until the apple logo appears while powering on the laptop. I reinitialed the powerbook drive, mac extended journaled and verified the disc and tried to install the software. I would try to connect to an external drive with a bootable os and see if that works. Oct 24, 2009 you should be able to boot the g4 with the cd in the drive and holding down the c on the keyboard, as has already been said. The darnest thing happened, powerbook 1s cd drive started working without a problem. Is there anyway i can mount the harddisk for proper repair. The powerbook g4 features firewire, for connecting external hard drives and dv cameras, and usb, for connecting graphics tablets, digital cameras, printers and scanners. The powerbook g4 runs on the riscbased powerpc g4 processor, designed by the aim appleibmmotorola development alliance and initially produced by motorola. Apple ibook, powerbook superdrive macbook superdrive. For over 15 years, powerbook medic has been providing parts, repair, and service for a variety of gadgets. Assuming that the bootable media is correct for your powerbook, you might need to boot into open firmware and select the optical drive. Can i use usb external dvd drive to boot apple community.
I tried entering c multiple times and also holding it down through the booting up process, and also did the same with cmd opt shift delete with the same freezing result. The powerbook g4 runs on the risc based powerpc g4 processor, designed by the aim apple ibm motorola development alliance and initially produced by motorola. May 11, 2016 assuming that the bootable media is correct for your powerbook, you might need to boot into open firmware and select the optical drive. To boot a powermac from an external firewire cddvd drive invoke open. Powerbook g4 aluminium 15 upgrades upgrade your mac. With more than 30 times the bandwidth of the popular usb 1. You should be able to boot the g4 with the cd in the drive and holding down the c on the keyboard, as has already been said. I popped my os 9 cd in the cdrom drive and cannot get to any screen where it allows me to boot from the cd.
Boot in the powerbook openfirmware the bootstrap that loads before. If it wont boot when holding c down you either have a bad cddvd rom drive. I attached an external usb drive to try to install the software there but doesnt find it. Powerbook g4 wont boot from any kind of external drive. Cant boot my powerbook g4 from a dvd apple community.
My optical drive does not work anymore, so this is how i install os x on my machine. Fully loaded with a powerful g4 processor, a 5400rpm 80 gb hard drive, 512 mb of memory, and a nifty scrolling trackpad, the 15inch powerbook g4 boasts features few notebook computers can match. This actually forces the system to not load the driver for the default volume, which has the side effect mentioned above. Installing tiger by usb on wiped powerbook g4 macrumors forums. I just got a printer, and the installation is not available by download, so i need a disk drive. I got a freeze halfway during a clean install on a powerbook g4, now i can only boot from a boot cd but i can no longer see the hard disk. If you have one of these, you need an external terminal or another pc. A forum for all things regarding the mac osx operating system. The d key forces the powerbook bronze keyboard and firewire to boot from the internal hard disk. Or, you can get a fw400 cable and connect the imac and powerbook, put the powerbook in target disk mode hold t when you turn it on until a firewire logo appears on screen, and then see if you can access the powerbook drive on your imac. Booting as a firewire target connect the powerbook to another fwequipped system. The wrinkle is that the builtin cdr drive no longer works.
Once you see the screen go white with some text on it, you can release those keys. Late in 1997, the powerbook 3400 was adapted into the first powerbook g3, codenamed the kanga. How to make a bootable external mac hard drive youtube. One last thingdo you have access to an optical drive. How to boot a mac from an external drive or alternate.
Mac powerbook g4 problems booting from cd and start up. I just picked up a clamshell ibook with a broken optical drive. If this is the case, can i still use ccc to my external drive usb and then use the mac os cd to boot and move the material to the new drive. On the linux cd you want to install from, check the location of the binary called yaboot. Hi the disc drive on my powerbook g4 is no longer working it just spits the discs back out immediately.
The powerbook just does not want to boot from the external drive no matter what. Powerbook g4 cddvd drive not recognized mac support. Feb 17, 2007 hi, i have a very similar problem to the person below. Bypass startup drive and boot from external or cd, cmdoptshiftdelete. I have a powerbook g4 and recently it would not boot up past the mac os x loading screen and will stop at printing services. Oct 05, 2015 you can boot from usb, i have done it several times on an ibook g3 and g4, as long as the external drive is properly set you wont have any problem. Resolved installing tiger by usb on wiped powerbook g4. Certainly insert the morphos disc into the cd drive. This is also useful if your main hard disk is having problems and you need to start up from another device.
When booting, it goes to the apple logo and then the little round icon shows its doing. I am trying to erase a g4 powerbook but the disk utility erase tab is grayed out. I made a live usb stick of the os x install disc this way. Create a bootable usb sierra installer in mac os x 10.
Thank you for helping us maintain cnets great community. Hi, i have a very similar problem to the person below. Powerbook g4 aluminium 17 upgrades upgrade your mac. Recently, the hard drive in my powerbook g4 started making horrible clicking noises, i immediately turned it off. In january 2003 apple revamped the powerbook range and brought the biggest available lcd, with a resolution of 1440 x 990 pixels, to this top of the range offering. Booting a mac g4 from cd apple osx geeks to go forum. While booting, hold down optionmacof to enter open firmware. Even if you cannot boot from cdrom, you can probably install the debian system. Os x booted successfully off of the external drive, albeit slowly. The powerbook 1400 and 3400 were the first powerbooks ever to include an internal cd drive. Solved old powerbook g4 wont boot from any install disc apple. Apr 05, 2005 powerbook g4, boot from external firewire drive. If you have one of these, you need an external terminal or another pc that.
On some powerbooks, however, this key combination merely ignores the internal drive, which isnt as useful. I finally hooked up a firewire external cd player and got it to boot from it. Hello, my powerbook g4 would freeze about 30 seconds after start up, so i tried to repair with disk utility and it did not help the problem. When i tried to boot off the drive 10 cd using the built in superdrive i got repeated kernel panics. You should be able to partition and format a working drive in your pm, boot from the 10.
Aug 05, 2008 i have a powerbook g4 and recently it would not boot up past the mac os x loading screen and will stop at printing services. Im trying to reinstall the mac osx but doesnt find any drives. I tried entering c multiple times and also holding it down through the booting up process, and also. This series was the last powerbook model to employ a real keyboard with 1 cm high keys. Ibook g3 dual usb mac ox install without cd drive ppc. The refresh in april 2004 saw the 15 powerbook move to 1.
Solved old powerbook g4 wont boot from any install disc. The first 15 powerbook g4 aluminium was released in september 2005 with 1ghz and 1. Netboot new world rom machines only looks for bootp or tftp server on the network to boot from r. This option on boot trick works for quite literally any boot volume, whether its an external usb drive of any sort, a thunderbolt hard drive, boot dvd, cd, the recovery partition, even in dual boot environments with other versions of os x, or a linux or a windows partition with boot camp, if its bootable and connected to the mac it will be visible at this boot manager. This series was the last powerbook model to employ a real keyboard with. Unfortunately, the system is in german and the cd drive doesnt work, is there any chance i. The last few generations of macs which could boot mac os 9 require a modelspecific 9. Jan 18, 2017 create a bootable usb sierra installer in mac os x 10. To boot from the external, connect it up, go into tiger system preferences, select the leopard external drive, and restart. Does it otherwise turn on, and do you have an os installation cd. Hold down the c button while booting to boot from the cd. How to make a bootable external mac hard drive duration.
Your friends powerbook g4 is probably too new to be supported by your universal 9. Now the 60gb powerbook works flawlessly, even though it has a nonoem matshita dvdram uj845s drive. I have a new toy to play with, someone ask me to have a look at a lonely ibook. I booted off my leopard cd rom and installed the os on the external drive which was connected via firewire to the powerbook. Is booting on a mac ibook g4 from an external dvd drive. This page covers all versions of the powerbook g4 17 which have a silver keyboard and a 17 display. Powerbook new hard drive install apple ios os help fix.
This had no psu for a test, but the one from a powerbook g4 made the trick and i got a working ibook. The powerbook g4 is a series of notebook computers manufactured, marketed, and sold by apple computer, inc. I want to replace it with an external usb or firewire lacie dvd drive. Unable to boot to live dvd on mac powerbook g4 ask ubuntu. I recently got an old ibook g4 as many of you might have noticed with all of my recent questions. Ive used a tutorial like this to load leopard on a powerbook g4 ti with an 800mhz proc. Only works with apple rom drives and with bootable cd discs. My g4 pci graphics internal drive dvdrom is not working, its dead. I had to take the 60gb hd out of powerbook 2 and install it into powerbook 1. Forces most macs to boot from the cdrom drive instead of the internal hard drive. Today, just for fun, i rebooted my powerbook g4 with the usb drive connected while holding the option key to load the boot drive selection menu. If you have a bootable drive cddvd or harddrive press and hold down the option key while booting. I plan on getting that fixed, but for now, im looking for a cheaper way to get by.
Startup manager on the ibook, power mac g4 agp graphics, powerbook. Sata optical drive superdrive enclosure for unibody macbook. I used an external lg dvd drive instead of a usb stick. Older powerbooks could easily boot mac os 9 from usb media, but it was.
It is the only way to boot the machine from anything but the hard disk or the cdrom. However, when i tried to boot the pb off the external drive via firewire of course, i got the folder with the questionmark icon first and then the pb proceeded to boot from the internal drive. Also i have the os x cd and i seem to be unable to boot from the cd. Micromat drive 10 does not boot titanium powerbook g4 1. You can boot from usb, i have done it several times on an ibook g3 and g4, as long as the external drive is properly set you wont have any problem. Superdrive dvdcd upgrades for apple powerbook g4 models. Installing new os on powerbook g4 without usb key or cd super. But if you want to use the external drive as you main system, really i dont know, but will probably be a slow if you achieve it. It showed my internal drive as well as my external backup drive as valid boot drives, so i chose the external drive. Installing ubuntu on macintosh powerpc, no cddrive, usb. I just got an image of a folder with a question mark flashing on it.
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