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May 25th, 2006, 08:11 PM
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Can intel macs boot from USB?
USB drives and cases are so much cheaper than those with FW . . . Anybody done this yet?
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May 25th, 2006, 09:09 PM
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I know that on PPC Macs will, if that helps.
External Firewire+USB HD, only USB
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May 25th, 2006, 09:18 PM
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Well I couldn't get PPC Macs or Intel Mac to boot from USB externals.
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May 26th, 2006, 07:23 AM
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Originally Posted by milhaus |
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USB drives and cases are so much cheaper than those with FW . . . Anybody done this yet? |
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I'm waiting for my Intel iMac to arrive, so I haven't tried this yet. But, according to others, it does work. http://rentzsch.com/tidbits/intelbas...ncompatibility
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May 26th, 2006, 10:19 AM
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Originally Posted by JPL |
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Well I couldn't get PPC Macs or Intel Mac to boot from USB externals. |
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Me neither... my iBook G4 will not recognize a USB drive as a bootable device.
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May 26th, 2006, 06:26 PM
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Originally Posted by mikef |
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Me neither... my iBook G4 will not recognize a USB drive as a bootable device. |
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No, PPC systems won't boot from USB. You need Firewire (with a controller that supports booting).
Edit: Sounds perhaps that I should have said "Recent PPC systems".
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Last edited by Atroz; May 26th, 2006 at 06:40 PM.
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May 26th, 2006, 06:33 PM
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Originally Posted by Atroz |
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No, PPC systems won't boot from USB. You need Firewire (with a controller that supports booting). |
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not so fast
i used to boot non FW g3 imacs from a USB external hard drive which came in very handy when their cd-rom drives were cooked as i had no other way to run repair utilities
quick list of iMacs to find non FW versions
http://www.theimac.com/
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May 26th, 2006, 07:11 PM
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Originally Posted by MACSPECTRUM |
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not so fast
i used to boot non FW g3 imacs from a USB external hard drive which came in very handy when their cd-rom drives were cooked as i had no other way to run repair utilities
quick list of iMacs to find non FW versions
http://www.theimac.com/ |
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Oh thats cheating NON firewire well DUH 
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May 26th, 2006, 07:25 PM
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Well, this has been useful . . . ;-)
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May 27th, 2006, 07:47 PM
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I've booted my intel iMac from a USB drive after using SuperDuper to clone my main drive.
It works.
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