I think in some instances dabbling with Open Firmware is required (more on this later). On my G4 iBook, I tried to boot Tiger using the very same USB 2.0 8GB Sandisk drive that had worked with the G3 and it didn't appear in the boot menu - even with refreshing to check for drives! Very frustrating. From my experience, the process is extremely inconsistent and varies from one machine to another. I’ve been waiting to install an OS for 2 weeks! I used my Mac mini btw, somehow both my Macs have working optical drives. I don’t even have all the tools to do that. I thought my only course of action would be to remove the HDD and install an OS using my Mac mini.
My USB DVD burner did not show up as a boot device either (works for my Mac mini, I don’t think it can get enough power out of the iBook). The 3GB HDD just stopped booting entirely the other day, probably due to the weird thing I did which basically converted jaguar into OS 8.6 since I couldn’t get a single CD to boot.
Inside of my iBook however, is a booting OS 9.2.2 CD! I thought the CD Drive was broken, and I had a serious problem because my iBook does not have FireWire (nor do I own any FireWire stuff), and I swear usb booting is a myth at least on the original iBook 300MHZ I have.
To the left of me is TWELVE CD-R coasters of 8.6-10.2.
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