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Booting a g3 iMac from USB CD?
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<blockquote data-quote="Earthworm Jim" data-source="post: 404001" data-attributes="member: 31708"><p>Holding down various buttons during booting got me nothing but a the little question-mark-o-doom. But, I did manage to boot from the USB cd. I had to override the built-in firmware device alias for 'cd' and point it to the USB device:</p><p></p><p>Hold down CTRL+OPTION+O+F, hit power button, get a firmware prompt.</p><p>0> devalias cd /pci@f2000000/usb@19/disk@1</p><p>0> boot cd,\\:tbxi</p><p></p><p>Sadly, I haven't yet figured out how to permanently change the cd alias - whenver the system reboots, it comes back as the original alias pointing to the device that doesn't work. </p><p></p><p>What's more - none of the Apple CDs want to boot from the USB drive. But, I've got Debian Linux up and running for the moment.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Earthworm Jim, post: 404001, member: 31708"] Holding down various buttons during booting got me nothing but a the little question-mark-o-doom. But, I did manage to boot from the USB cd. I had to override the built-in firmware device alias for 'cd' and point it to the USB device: Hold down CTRL+OPTION+O+F, hit power button, get a firmware prompt. 0> devalias cd /pci@f2000000/usb@19/disk@1 0> boot cd,\\:tbxi Sadly, I haven't yet figured out how to permanently change the cd alias - whenver the system reboots, it comes back as the original alias pointing to the device that doesn't work. What's more - none of the Apple CDs want to boot from the USB drive. But, I've got Debian Linux up and running for the moment. [/QUOTE]
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