I have a live usb image that seems to run on my lenovo thinkpad that I'd like to get to work on an old iBook (Model A1007). Things I have tried so far
1) Just turning the computer on with the usb in the usb drive.
2) Holding the option key while restarting the computer
3) Following these instructuions:
http://ben-collins.blogspot.com/2010/08/booting-your-ibook-g4-from-usb-stick.html
but replaced all instances of "txbi" to "yaboot"
First
In this case I booted while holding down Cmd + Option + O + F
and typed:
boot ud:,\\yaboot
This brings up a circle with a line through it icon.
Maybe this means it failed to boot from the usb device so I tried the alternative walk though after a restart and the same key combenation:
> dev usb0
which returned
dev usb0 ok
then
> ls
returned
ff9a6d98: /disk@1 ok
then
> dev disk@1
returned
> dev disk@1 ok
then
pwd
returned
pwd /pci@f2000000/usb@18 ok
then
boot /pci@f2000000/usb@18/disk@1:,\\yaboot
returned
boot /pci@f2000000/usb@18/disk@1:,\\yaboot can't open :/pci@f2000000/usb@18/disk@1:,\\yaboot
Does this suggest a problem with my usb drive? Or perhaps I am doing something wrong with this attempted way of booting from a usb. Any suggestions?
Best Answer
A quick search for Lenovo ThinkPad shows these machines use Intel processors. I believe your iBook uses a PowerPC processor. So one would expect the USB flash drive to fail to work with your iBook, if you can boot using the ThinkPad.
Appendix
Ubuntu PowerPC FAQ
Lubuntu 16.04.3 LTS (Xenial Xerus)
Ubuntu MATE 16.04.3 LTS (Xenial Xerus)