[Macpartners] Macpartners Digest, Vol 57, Issue 10

[Susan]

That sounds incorrect to me. I remember booting from a USB CD-ROM  
drive on my Tibook.

This is Apple's article. Helpful, ain't it? <wry grin>

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106474

Contradicted in some ways by this article:

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=25184

I'd contact Apple support or go to the discussion boards if I were  
you. It may be just that drive.

Susan

On Feb 22, 2008, at 12:27 PM, Andrew Munchbach wrote:

> I'm almost 100% positive that USB devices are not bootable from a  
> non-intel Mac.    Does your G5 not have a DVD drive?  Does not have  
> to be a dual layer drive to read a dual-layer disc.
>
> Also, you can "clone" the CD onto an external Firewire drive and  
> boot from that if the internal DVD drive is not an option.  Use  
> Disk Utility to do this.
>
> -A
>
> - -
> Andrew Munchbach
> Massachusetts Institute of Technology
> Consultant - Departmental IT Resources
> E19-630
> amunch at mit.edu
> (617) 253-0157
>
>
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