While I'm not a Mac person, there has to be some logical process that tells the machine to boot from the external drive, not from the customary internal drive? What is that process for modern Macs? Or some process that changes the default boot device? Somewhere there is either flash memory or CMOS RAM that stores this "preference" data, and a motherboard ROM with code to read it and change it.
Fred Holmes At 07:09 PM 3/15/2008, Jeff Miles wrote: > It's connected through a firewire cable. And yes, it's a fully >operation OS X. I'd assume it's a bootable disk since it was a drive >out of a fully operation computer. It was just removed, put in an >external case and then connected to the iBook via the firewire cable. > >Jeff M > > >On Mar 15, 2008, at 9:08 AM, Stephen Brownfield wrote: > >>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? > > >************************************************************************* >** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** >** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** >************************************************************************* ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
