cloned drive doesn't show up as bootable

2012-08-14 Thread frrob
Hello! I have an odd (at least to me) problem. I have installed a couple of new hard drives in my MDD G4 (1.25 GHz, OS 10.5.8). They all mount just fine. My usual boot drive is an OWC 115 GB SSD. I have an old drive in the machine, a Seagate 200 GB, with 2 partitions (call them volumes A and

Re: cloned drive doesn't show up as bootable

2012-08-14 Thread Kris Tilford
On Aug 14, 2012, at 4:52 PM, frrob wrote: So what gives? Why won't the cloned volume of the WD 320 (Partition C) show up as bootable? You probably forgot the reformat the HD as Apple Partition Format in the Disk UtilityPartition TabOptions section? PPC Macs only boot from Apple Partition

Re: cloned drive doesn't show up as bootable

2012-08-14 Thread frrob
Kris: Bingo! Apple Partition Format vs. Master Boot Record is one of those things I read about ages ago and then forgot about. Sure enough, that what I found in Disk Utility. Thanks! Rob Johansen On Tuesday, August 14, 2012 6:08:09 PM UTC-4, Kris Tilford wrote: On Aug 14, 2012, at 4:52