Lawrence David Eden wrote:
> I have a B&W that is running 10.4.11
> The B&W is upgraded to G4 @ 500mhz.
> 
> I would like to be able to boot the Mac using an external SCSI hard 
> drive, but when I tried it yesterday, the Mac booted into OS X.  I 
> used System Preferences Start-up Disk to set the external drive as my 
> boot drive.  Did I forget something?

What kind of SCSI interface do you have in the B&W?  Some SCSI cards are 
meant for scanners and such and the card is not bootable. You would be 
able to see the drive, access it and set it as the Startup disk but it 
couldn't be started up from that card.


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