[G4] Bootable Hard Drive

[Philip J Robar]

On Jul 8, 2006, at 11:24 AM, faramineux wrote:

> Would someone be kind enough to refresh my memory?
> Can one make a USB 2.0 Hard Drive bootable?
> I have the lingering feeling it works only with firewire drive.

It works on some Macs, but Apple doesn't support it.

According to this site Intel Macs can boot from USB:
http://www.tuaw.com/2006/02/08/intel-macs-can-boot-from-usb-drives/

Mac OS X Hints says that some PowerPC Macs will boot from USB:
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20060301112336384&lsrc=osxh

You could have found this out for yourself with a few minutes of  
searching.


Phil