<html><head></head><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">On Mar 2, 2012, at 6:36 PM, Will Lentz <<a href="mailto:coolguy.lentz@gmail.com">coolguy.lentz@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><br></div><div><br></div><div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>Hi I am having troubles booting a mac G4 PPC with very low ram and cpu and would like to try booting from a usb stick is there any possible way???<br></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Yes it is I've done it on my eMac 1GHz 1GB RAM USB 1.1 supposedly not bootable on USB it's done from open firmware<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); "> </span></div><div><br></div><p style="margin-bottom: 1.5em; ">Boot in open firmware by holding option+command+o+f. Then find out which is the device:</p><pre class="brush: csharp;" title="code"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: normal;"> dev / ls</span></font></pre><p style="margin-bottom: 1.5em; ">You should see somewhere usb with an extra entry disk, write that number down usb19 or something in my case. Then have a look at the devalias:</p><pre class="brush: csharp;" title="code"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: normal;"> devalias</span></font></pre><p style="margin-bottom: 1.5em; ">Now it's either usb0 or usb1 which is associated with usb19. This is your boot device, in my case usb1. Then boot:<br> </p><pre class="brush: csharp;" title="code"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Helvetica"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="white-space: normal;"> boot usb1/disk@1:2,\\yaboot (or)</span></font></pre><pre class="brush: csharp;" title="code"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Helvetica; white-space: normal; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">boot usb0/disk@1:2,\\yaboot</span></pre><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 20px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">Hope this helps</div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 20px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); "><br></div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 20px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">Louis</div><div style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 20px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); "><br></div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#333333" face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);"> Sent from Lou's iPhone 4S </span></font></body></html>