How is the external hard drive connected to the iBook? Do you know for
a fact that the "fully operational OS X" is a bootable disk?
Jeff Miles wrote:
The hard drive in my iBook died. I'm trying to start from an
external hard drive that has a fully operational OS X on it, but
during start up it gets stuck with the message "waiting for local
disks". By this I'm assuming it's waiting for the internal hard drive
to be recognized, which it ain't going to do. The thing is stuck
solid. I've heard the clicking for the last month or so, but being a
side machine I don't use that often, I've put it off. Now I'm on a
quest to get this thing working from the external, without having to
pull the machine apart and physically disconnect the internal hard drive.
How do I get the machine to start from the external and ignore the
internal, or "local disks"?
Just a thought here, I'm assuming by the term "local disks" it is
referring to the internal hard drive. What else could it mean? I've
got nothing else connected to the machine.
Jeff M
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