On Jul 30, 2009, at 4:06 PM, Bill Christensen wrote:
> > Hey folks, > > Is there any hardware related reason that a B&W won't boot off an > external firewire drive. The drive is 250gig, but since it's > external that shouldn't really matter. It's freshly loaded with > 10.4.11. > I don't believe it will. Its hardware related. My Yikes! is the same way ... you can get around it by using Xpostfacto, and use an onboard hard drive as the Helper, and then it will seem to be booting off the external FW enclosure drive. It will then Startup from the external, but only "via" the internal drive. > The same drive boots off my gig ether just fine. > > I've tried two different B&Ws and neither will boot. One doesn't > even see the drive, though that may be because it's got a stripped > down version of 9.1 on the internal drive. The other runs 10.4.11, > sees the drive, but won't boot off it. Everything after Yikes! I think boots off external FW, but not USB. I don't think OS 9.1 can utilize large hard drives. Maybe 9.2.2? LEM Gurus ruling? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
