I was on my iBook G4 tonight, when the machine froze up. I thought it was due to having a lot of tabs open in FireFox. I did the Command-Option-Escape command, but nothing came up.…

I'll have to try getting into OF.. didn't seem to work when I tried.

Eef, if there was a hole blown in the lobo, sounds like the poor little thing has been put out to pasture. I'd nose around for another lobo for it to see if you can breathe some li…

I got one of my friends to tell me how he did it with his G4 iBook. He had to boot into Open Firmware and run a command to do it, but it (USB DVD-ROM) worked.

Everything I've read says they wont. Only the intel ones. I'll just snag a firewire cable this weekend and try disk mode on my G3 if I can get THAT to boot OSX......

I hate to say it, but it sounds like that one's past doing too much with, apart from stripping for parts...I'd look around for another 1400, working, and keep that one for parts. A…

Plenty of G4s will boot from USB, although none of the Power Macs will IIRC. It's worth a shot on the mini.

I got my adapter today and popped the 80 GB drive into my G3. After a little playing around with the Silverlining software, I can access *ALL* of the files on my disk! Copying them…

Well the mini takes a laptop optical drive so in theory you could use some random ibook/powerbook drive if you want.

Hi! i have one of those powerbooks 500 with a nupower PPC 630e at 117mhz, and like you said... that's a really solid notebook, the innards are made of steel! 8-o , very impressiv…

I've got firewire in my B&W G3 but it doesn't run OSX.

You have no other firewire mac's to boot from? I once restored an OS X disk to another mac's drive and told the target mac to boot from that. Can you say über fast install?

Yep I see that now. Sweet. I've always wanted a paperweight.

PowerPC doesn't boot from USB. Firewire only son.

I've concluded the cd drive is broken. Gonna see if I can format a usb drive to boot the osx installer.

Right, I forgot about that. Keep in mind that it will take ALOT longer then normal permissions repair.

the no smoking sign means OS X needs to be reinstalled because some file has broke. As for the G4. Put that into target disk mode and erase the hard drive(of course taking your fil…

I'll try that when I get home. Getting to the grey screen with the blinking "?" though should get me going but maybe my install media is actually messed... I'll be trying a DVD ver…

hi!, this is my first post and i really need your help, some days ago i bought from internet a pb1400 almost mind but it say "doesn't turn on" on the place, anyway.. just for $30 b…

Does holding down option/alt at boot give you the Apple boot disk selector screen? If so, does the OS X CD show up there?

Some progress.... Booted back into linux and ran my favorite command "shred /dev/hda" so now the hard drive is completely blank. Boots to a grey screen with a blinking question mar…

So I'm wanting to go back to OSX from linux on my G4 Mini but it refuses to accept boot media. I'm attempting to use a 10.4 CD (verified, should work) but despite using the "C" key…

How do I put my g4 in target disk mode? Click to expand... at boot up press and hold the T key until you see the firewire logo move around like a screen saver. You now have a $…

Press Command-V as soon as you turn on the Mac. That's verbose mode and will let you see what messages are appearing on the UNIX side of things, messages which could help diagnose …

Nvm, talked to derekat(Idk if any of you remember him but he used to post here before the crash) and he said try it without the hard drive, tried that, it worked, tried different j…