USB boot -- frozen on Happy Mac

[lepidotos]

Hi.

Laptop is an iBook G3 900MHz, 14.1 inches if that's important. I'm using the 2013 universal media from Macintosh Repository with the USB boot additions. Seem to have done it mostly properly, but my USB doesn't show any activity once I reach the Happy Mac image. It's been about half an hour and it's still on it.

Do I need to go get and install the laptop-specific media, is it my USB drive, or what?

Thanks.

[FBz]

IF… when you boot up holding down the option key, your USB stick does not
show up as a bootable source - then you may have to retry making the USB
boot stick. Be patient, give it time to possibly find your stick for booting.

IF… it does show up as a bootable drive when booting with the option key
down / but won’t fully boot from the stick when chosen as the boot device,
then again… try, try again to re-make a bootable USB stick.

Just did this recently using a USB 2.0 stick on an 800 MHz G3 iBook
and newer USB sticks would not work. And I was quite surprised that it
worked at all. And no, I did not need to use the laptop-specific install image.

[lepidotos]

IF… when you boot up holding down the option key, your USB stick does not
show up as a bootable source - then you may have to retry making the USB
boot stick. Be patient, give it time to possibly find your stick for booting.

IF… it does show up as a bootable drive when booting with the option key
down / but won’t fully boot from the stick when chosen as the boot device,
then again… try, try again to re-make a bootable USB stick.

Just did this recently using a USB 2.0 stick on an 800 MHz G3 iBook
and newer USB sticks would not work. And I was quite surprised that it
worked at all. And no, I did not need to use the laptop-specific install image.

It shows up as a bootable drive and starts to boot, but then never does. The drive is USB 2.0. I can't really think of anything else to consider besides just blindly reformatting the USB stick and trying again over and over. It just gets this far and then hangs. I'm half tempted to leave it like that for an hour or two just to see if it's just incredibly slow.

[FBz]

It shouldn’t take more than 10—15 minutes for the install to begin
and even possibly to complete. I used Mactron’s Bootable Rescue
CD & Disk Repair file for my USB.

http://macos9lives.com/smforum/index.php/topic,1657.0.html

But you could also use the Universal Install:
http://macos9lives.com/smforum/index.php/topic,2109.0.html

If you encounter same non-results using the Mac Repository Universal
- you might try either of the above. IF those don’t work for you...
let me know and I’ll try to retrace how I created mine.

[lepidotos]

It shouldn’t take more than 10—15 minutes for the install to begin
and even possibly to complete. I used Mactron’s Bootable Rescue
CD & Disk Repair file for my USB.

http://macos9lives.com/smforum/index.php/topic,1657.0.html

But you could also use the Universal Install:
http://macos9lives.com/smforum/index.php/topic,2109.0.html

If you encounter same non-results using the Mac Repository Universal
- you might try either of the above. IF those don’t work for you...
let me know and I’ll try to retrace how I created mine.

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