can a powerbook g4 be booted via firewire?

someone gave me a powerbook g4 mercury m5884 without a power supply?
someone else said they heard that powerbooks can be booted using a
firewire connection to another computer as a power supply. is this true?
if so, is it just plug in the cable and go or do you need to remove the
battery (dead) first?

thanks in advance

<jgkdfjgksd@wdfgvhb.piihjb> wrote:

> someone gave me a powerbook g4 mercury m5884 without a power supply?
> someone else said they heard that powerbooks can be booted using a
> firewire connection to another computer as a power supply. is this true?

No. The PowerBook would require its own working battery or external
power supply.

A Mac with two Firewire ports and no power of its own is able to receive
power via Firewire for the purpose of powering its Firewire physical
interface, so it can forward data to the other port, but the computer
won't work in any other way.

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David Empson
dempson@actrix.gen.nz