Comments on: HOWTO: Install and Boot OS X 10.4 On a Flash Drive

By: Rakesh Solanki

Rakesh Solanki — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 15:58:32 +0000

Thanks for this tip, My DVD Drive not working and it was great headache for me before read your post. but you solved my problem, thanks again.

By: bandsxbands

bandsxbands — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 10:26:26 +0000

Memory sure is becoming cheaper and cheaper and cheaper. I wonder when we will finally reach the rate of 1 cent to 1 Gig.I’m eagerly anticipating the day when I will finally be able to afford a 20 TB hard drive, haha. But for now I will be happy with having a 16 gig Micro SD Card in my R4i.(Posted from R4Post for R4i Nintendo DS.)

By: bandsxbands

bandsxbands — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 07:24:46 +0000

My friend and I were recently discussing about technology, and how integrated it has become to our daily lives. Reading this post makes me think back to that discussion we had, and just how inseparable from electronics we have all become.I don’t mean this in a bad way, of course! Societal concerns aside… I just hope that as memory becomes less expensive, the possibility of transferring our brains onto a digital medium becomes a true reality. It’s one of the things I really wish I could see in my lifetime.(Submitted on FFV2 for R4i Nintendo DS.)

By: Geremia

Geremia — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 19:28:25 +0000

I am on an Intel MacBook, and everything works fine for a 10.5 installation except after the startup sequence, when the Finder should load, I just see a gray background with the colored pinwheel spinning indefinitely. It looks like something should have loaded that did not. Is SetupAssistant supposed to load then?

Also, you say that Essentials.pkg and BaseSystem.pkg are located in “/Library/Receipts/bom/”, but “com.apple.pkg.Essentials.bom” and “com.apple.pkg.BaseSystem.bom”. Do I copy “/Library/Receipts/bom/” to “/Volumes/myusbdrive/Library/Receipts/bom/” or do I copy “com.apple.pkg.Essentials.bom” and “com.apple.pkg.BaseSystem.bom” to “/Volumes/myusbdrive/Library/Receipts/”? Thanks

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By: eirc

eirc — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 17:40:12 +0000

Tried your great advice, but how long should one wait booting from usb1.0 devices? i get the apple logo on grey, then spinning rainbow, then an arrow cursor on blue screen and the timer cursor, quite random mix and last an hour so far! Running 10.3.9 on an emac and used 10.4.0 dvd img during the Pacifist stage.

Any clues Thanks

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By: arnorking

arnorking — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:56:44 +0000

hello, trying this on ibook g4 12″ 1ghz, but will not boot from my 8gb sandisk, but tried to boot on imac g3 600mhz just to see and it worked(of course). anybody get this to work on ibook g4 12″ 1ghz? any help is welcome. thanks! (all)macs rule!

By: sprale

sprale — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:42:33 +0000

I just loaded Tiger onto an APM 1Gb disk for the PPC Macs I use. I tried using this same tutorial for Intel Macs on a GUID disk unsuccessfully. I’ll come back to that soon enough, maybe using Snow Leopard and a bigger thumb drive.

Terminal log:
pem297748matx:~ sprale$ sudo bless -verbose -folder “/Volumes/iTote/System/Library/CoreServices” -bootinfo
OpenFirmware found at IODeviceTree:/openprom
OpenFirmware model is ” OpenFirmware 4″
Mount point for /Volumes/iTote/System/Library/CoreServices is /Volumes/iTote
Common mount point of ‘/Volumes/iTote/System/Library/CoreServices’ and ” is /Volumes/iTote
Opened dest at /Volumes/iTote/System/Library/CoreServices/BootX for writing
0×0002B000 bytes preallocated for /Volumes/iTote/System/Library/CoreServices/BootX

Type/creator set to tbxi/chrp for /Volumes/iTote/System/Library/CoreServices/BootX
Setting UF_IMMUTABLE on /Volumes/iTote/System/Library/CoreServices/BootX
BootX created successfully at /Volumes/iTote/System/Library/CoreServices/BootX
No boot.efi creation requested
Got directory ID of 10540 for /Volumes/iTote/System/Library/CoreServices
finderinfo[0] = 10540
finderinfo[1] = 0
finderinfo[2] = 0
finderinfo[3] = 0
finderinfo[5] = 10540
pem297748matx:~ sprale$