USB Boot for PowerMac G5
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    LazarX
    Posts: 7 from 2020/4/30
    Is there a way to create a bootable USB for a PowerMac G5 from the iso file?
  • »04.11.22 - 18:47
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  • Priest of the Order of the Butterfly
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    polluks
    Posts: 779 from 2007/10/23
    From: Gelsenkirchen,...
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    Pegasos II G4: MorphOS 3.9, Zalman M220W · iMac G5 12,1 17", MorphOS 3.18
    Power Mac G3: OSX 10.3 · PowerBook 5,8: OSX 10.5, MorphOS 3.18
  • »04.11.22 - 23:40
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  • Just looking around
    LazarX
    Posts: 7 from 2020/4/30
    No I had not, I picked some cdrs and got a boot cd made

    I succesfully ran the installer but Morph won't boot and the Boot partition can be seen but apparantly does not have the blessing needed for it to boot.

    I'm using a PowerMac G5 7,2.
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  • Paladin of the Pegasos
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    koszer
    Posts: 1246 from 2004/2/8
    From: Poland
    Quote:

    LazarX wrote:
    I succesfully ran the installer but Morph won't boot and the Boot partition can be seen but apparantly does not have the blessing needed for it to boot.


    Did you partition your harddrive manually?
  • »14.11.22 - 07:21
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  • MorphOS Developer
    cyfm
    Posts: 537 from 2003/4/11
    From: Germany
    Actually, the SD card/USB hybrid image should be bootable directly on a G5 if you change the boot-device to UD: instead of HD: in OF and you have written the RAW image to a USBstick directly...
    I wished Apple's USB boot device support had been a bit more straight forward back then but they decided to focus on Firewire for marketing reasons, it seems.
    Either way, I use this kind of boot method on all my Apple-type machines as a type of emergency boot option, so it definitely works. Of course it can also be used to update/install the latest MorphOS version.
    If it doesn't work/boot, it is most likely the type of USB device that is refused by OpenFirmware and/or the image that is not correctly written to the USB media.
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  • Order of the Butterfly
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    Zetec-s
    Posts: 194 from 2008/7/10
    From: Cheshire, UK
    This chap has been in touch with me directly and the issue he is actually having is that MorphOS is installed but is not booting for some reason.

    He has a Boot partition and it has the right files (name wise) in it but it won’t boot.

    He actually reached out on Facebook to me as I have a G5 working but I’ve checked the basics with him and cannot really help anymore.
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  • »16.11.22 - 23:46
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  • Just looking around
    LazarX
    Posts: 7 from 2020/4/30
    Quote:

    LazarX wrote:
    Is there a way to create a bootable USB for a PowerMac G5 from the iso file?


    I took out the other hard drive so there's just one in the system.

    Booted off the CD again and aside from selecting region/language/time zone just went with the defaults.

    Could the issue be that it's a terrabyte drive?

    The image is the 3.17 version downloaded directly from the website.
  • »17.11.22 - 06:02
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    LazarX
    Posts: 7 from 2020/4/30
    I finally got things working.

    The final fix.... swapping positions of the two hard drives.

    And NOT naming my Mac partition "System">

    I now have a triple boot of Leopard, Tiger, on one drive and MorphOS on the other.
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  • Priest of the Order of the Butterfly
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    polluks
    Posts: 779 from 2007/10/23
    From: Gelsenkirchen,...
    Well, "SYS" is reserved but "System" should not make any difference.
    Pegasos II G4: MorphOS 3.9, Zalman M220W · iMac G5 12,1 17", MorphOS 3.18
    Power Mac G3: OSX 10.3 · PowerBook 5,8: OSX 10.5, MorphOS 3.18
  • »17.11.22 - 15:14
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  • Just looking around
    LazarX
    Posts: 7 from 2020/4/30
    Quote:

    polluks wrote:
    Well, "SYS" is reserved but "System" should not make any difference.


    The install process creates a volume with System as it's name.

    As it turned out which SATA port I used was the critical difference.
  • »18.11.22 - 01:13
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