vitti Posted October 9, 2006 Share Posted October 9, 2006 I just recently installed 10.5 on a firewire 400 externel HDD (Maxtor) on my ibook G4. At first i used the OSInstall.mpkg method, but that didn't work (BSD Subscript install froze) so I used the method of restoring the .dmg image onto a partition. So i took my externel HDD and made tow partitions:MAC OS X Install and MAC OS X 10.5. I resored the image on the MAC OS X INSTALL partition (Erase destination was selected, and the FS was MAC OSX Jounaled. the boot option was apple). So, I now have a empty partition for the OS and the disk image on the other. I went into the sysprefs and changed the startup disk to the install image on the partition. HERE IS THE PROBLEM!!! When I reboot, the apple screen comes up but it's a blank white screen. no little apple, no progress circle. in about 10 mins the ibook decides that it can't boot from the device and boots my tiger install on the ibook. My one question is this: How do you boot off a Externel FireWire HDD? It won't even reconize it. I even used the 'option' key, but just my os 10.4.8 install appears. What am I doing wrong? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vitti Posted October 11, 2006 Author Share Posted October 11, 2006 bump I don't understand. Is my problem not solvable? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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