Booting from USB (was Re: PCMICA with the New Lil' G4 PB)

[Dan K]

On 1/13/03 "Marcelus G. Zalotti" <magiozal at bol.com.br>wrote:
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>on 1/13/03 18:21, Dan K at macdan at comcast.net wrote:
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>> I was just looking for FW-booting-info for a friend and came upon the
>> delightful news that his Yikes (PCI) G4 was the first Mac capable of
>> booting from the USB bus.
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>Really? Have you tested it? I've never heard about this before...

No I haven't tried booting a Yikes from a USB device. I hope I didn't 
commit that horrid fauxpas of quoting an unreliable source. 
IMHE(xperience), LowEndMac is usually quite reliable for "This Sort Of 
Thing".

<http://www.lowendmac.com/ppc/g4.shtml>

In any case, does anyone really want to boot from a USB device anyway? 
And more to the point, no on-topic PB here can do it, right?

Dan K