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I can do a pram reset with the 600W but not with the 500W

I have also tried removing all the ram DIMMs as suggested here and it beeps

(this post is similar to some others but I feel it's different enough for it's own post) My fw800 (dual 1.25Ghz) mdd's psu died a while ago so I replaced it with a cheap Thermaltake 600W atx psu with a conversion cable from ebay. It works fine, however it's too big to close the case so I bought...

sorry, I didn't see this, it seems my powermac g4 can natively boot from usb

I think I found a command that should work for any operating system: probe-usb boot usb<port ID>/disk:<partition number>,\\:tbxi I found it here: https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/guide-new-method-booting-from-usb-on-powerpc-macs.2403368/

attatched is the dumped firmware:

For the boot option, I would like to get linux working if that's possible. About the firmware, I probably just read it wrong

I believe that I have 4.2.8? I have a fw800 g4. I can't check right now but I will check later and tell you.

I know that it's possible to boot from usb on a 32 bit ppc mac by entering a command into OpenFirmware but would it be possible to code a firmware patch/update that would show usb devices in the boot picker? (by boot picker I mean the menu that pops up when one holds the alt key on startup)...

Burning the DVD again fixed it! Thanks again.

Maybe it hasn't worked. The installer keeps saying something went wrong. I'm burning another DVD right now with the same installer to see if that one was bad.

Yes! It worked! Thank you so much!

disk utility says the dvds are okay

I burned this image as it was the most popular on internet archive using brasero on a macbook air running debian 12 with an asus dvd-rw

I've noticed that this seems to be the same or similar to this thread but that thread does not have an answer

I have a PowerMac G4 MDD with Leopard currently installed. I'm trying to downgrade to Tiger by booting the install DVD. I have burned three copies of the DVD. All of the DVDs are recognized in the Leopard install, but going to the boot menu shows the HDD but not the DVD, any of the three I...

Cool. Thanks for replying

Would it be possible to run classic MacOS on a homebrew 68k board similar to the 68k-nano? How hard would it be if it's possible?