Re: No booting from external FW drives?

Eric J . Leopold Fri, 03 Sep 2004 17:59:49 -0700

When I tried to boot my backup drives by FireWire on my Mac B&W G3 in X or 9, I couldn't get it to work. OS 9.22 on the firewire La Cie 160 GB HD bombed. OS X on the firewire would default to OS 9.2.2 on my G3 HD. La Cie tech support (very fast BTW) said to use the Panther Drive Utility and go to restore. In the Restore panel you drag the partition (etc.) into the source and destination windows, click Restore and you're done. Eric Mac B&W G4 (was G3) 1 GHz (heart transplant of Sonnet Encore/ZIF) 1 GB RAM running Panther 10.3.5/OS 9.2.2 Sonnet ATA 66 PCI Radeon 7000 Adaptec FireWire PCI OEM 9 GB HD 2 -40 GB IBM HD On Sep 3, 2004, at 5:08 PM, Clark Martin wrote:

At 3:03 AM -0600 9/3/04, Tom Baker wrote:
I used Carbon Copy Cloner to put a copy of my system folder (OS 9.2.2) on one of my external FireWire drives, but I can't boot from it (I go back and forth from OS-X and 9.2.2). The drive shows up in OS-X's startup drive control panel as a bootable drive with an OS on it, but when I choose it and restart, all I get is the blinking question mark. This is a G-4 733 with FireWire two built-in 400 ports, and I have a chain of three external FireWire drives (one FW 400 and two FW 800's) plugged into one of the ports. The drive that I cloned OS-9 onto is one of the 800's. Maybe I should try putting OS 9 on the FW 400 drive, to see if it will boot from that, or are all external FireWire drives of any type just not bootable from, period?
How did you format the drive? If you used OS X to format it you have to select the OS 9 Driver option in order to boot from OS 9 on that disk. -- Clark Martin Redwood City, CA, USA Macintosh / Internet Consulting
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