It showed my internal drive as well as my external backup drive as valid boot drives, so I chose the external drive. Today, just for fun, I rebooted my PowerBook G4 with the USB drive connected while holding the option key to load the boot drive selection menu. I backed up my internal drive to an external USB 2.0 drive using SuperDuper! (a great application, by the way). This hint talks about getting a PowerPC Mac to start from a USB 2.0 drive, but it involves messing around with the system's NVRAM, which can be a complicated thing to do.īut today, I tried something new.
This isn't so much a hint as much as a discovery, but it could be useful to someone.