members.cox.net— According to Apple's specs, you can't boot from firewire on G3 Powermacs or early G4's, but this guy has managed to get that working using a combination of tricks based on info found via XPostFacto.
Dec 1, 2006View in Crawl 4
while technically not true yet on the G3 Beige, i will know in the next 45 minutes or less (I am doing the install, because i just got the Beige this afternoon)I only got it working on the G3 B&W, but I don't see why it can't do it. It is still capable from booting from PCI Cards, and judgiing that a similair setup has done it (the other G3) it shouldn't be too hard.I will update in a bit to let you know.BTW, thanks for posting this. I put the article up on my site to get it out and let it be known. when i get the booting on the beige working, i will update both the <a class="user" href="http://www.applefritter.com/node/19731">http://www.applefritter.com/node/19731</a> post, and the guide on the site I have
done! I got it up and booted! Posting from it right now!It's running at 416MHz (Overclocked from 300MHz) and has 640MB Ram and a Radeon (mac edition) in it and OS 10.3 is on it. Runs fine, and a good improvement over the internal drive system.
coiusDec 12, 2006
while technically not true yet on the G3 Beige, i will know in the next 45 minutes or less (I am doing the install, because i just got the Beige this afternoon)I only got it working on the G3 B&W, but I don't see why it can't do it. It is still capable from booting from PCI Cards, and judgiing that a similair setup has done it (the other G3) it shouldn't be too hard.I will update in a bit to let you know.BTW, thanks for posting this. I put the article up on my site to get it out and let it be known. when i get the booting on the beige working, i will update both the <a class="user" href="http://www.applefritter.com/node/19731">http://www.applefritter.com/node/19731</a> post, and the guide on the site I have
coiusDec 12, 2006
done! I got it up and booted! Posting from it right now!It's running at 416MHz (Overclocked from 300MHz) and has 640MB Ram and a Radeon (mac edition) in it and OS 10.3 is on it. Runs fine, and a good improvement over the internal drive system.