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Booting a PowerMac G5

Decided the Best Course of Action^TM was to replace my garage iPod with a garage OSX + iTunes, but this time using ye olde re-purposed PowerMac G5.

But getting a PowerMac G5 to boot from an external, non-Apple optical drive via USB? Yeah no fun ever when I have to re-learn all this, so here, for my reference:

1. Press-and-hold Option-Alt-O-F to boot into OpenFirmware.


2. devalias works just like on the old SPARC boxes.


3. Correct syntax for boot is:
   
   
   
   • ud:,\\:tbxi
   
   
   
   

drax0r's old G5