tgg Posted July 19, 2007 Share Posted July 19, 2007 Does someone have a guide or know of where to install a x86 macosx onto a usb external drive so I dont have to dual boot with windows. thanks Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/57544-usb-external-drive-question/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
tgg Posted July 19, 2007 Author Share Posted July 19, 2007 bump... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/57544-usb-external-drive-question/#findComment-411441 Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuBDivisions Posted July 19, 2007 Share Posted July 19, 2007 There are instructions in the Wiki, but i followed them , and even tho i set my usb drive to boot in my laptop, it wont boot to it. I cant even get Bootit NG to see it right and boot. I been doin it for a week.. Plus no one is really responding to help me here, thell tell u to "Search".. Except you CANT search for "USB" cause its only 3 letters, so i tried "External Boot" and everything, and im getting no where. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/57544-usb-external-drive-question/#findComment-411447 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Headrush69 Posted July 19, 2007 Share Posted July 19, 2007 What have you tried? For me its as simple as making sure when you partition the USB drive you select MBR partition type in options and then installing OS X. After that use BIOS to select the USB drive and away it goes. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/57544-usb-external-drive-question/#findComment-411459 Share on other sites More sharing options...
tgg Posted July 19, 2007 Author Share Posted July 19, 2007 What have you tried? For me its as simple as making sure when you partition the USB drive you select MBR partition type in options and then installing OS X. After that use BIOS to select the USB drive and away it goes. This is what i have and did: I have a usb hardrive enclosure so I put in a regular ide western 20gig hard drive in it, then made sure and it has always been enabled where I'm able to boot a usb device, then loaded the uphuck_10.4.9_v1.3 dvd and open up disk utility and selected the usb drive, then clicked the partition tab then, partitioned it as a mac os extended journeled using the mbr option. And man it was slow it took like at least a hour to finish could have been I chose alot of options to install too. So now when I choose to boot the usb drive I got some kind of mac command promt that the cursor is blinking where it says boot: or root: I forgot now but its the part where it says type -v or ? for more options, So byu hitting enter or something nothing happens just sits there. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/57544-usb-external-drive-question/#findComment-411475 Share on other sites More sharing options...
SuBDivisions Posted July 20, 2007 Share Posted July 20, 2007 I got mine to boot off the usb a really dumb way.. I booted off the mac cd and hit f8... got to a prompt and typed: mach_kernel -v rd=disk1s1 (the # of your drive and the partition #).. It boots, but i get the dreaded "Waiting on Root Device" error.. Now im using a SATA Drive in an enternal USB Enclosure... I am gonna try an IDE drive an external enclosure right now and see how it goes.. But also note, this is a REALLY crappy way to get around the boot from USB trouble i am having. Who the hell wants to do this every time? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/57544-usb-external-drive-question/#findComment-411671 Share on other sites More sharing options...
AntarcticP Posted July 20, 2007 Share Posted July 20, 2007 Hi, I'm booting from my external USB drive from version 10.4.3 on. It's an IDE drive. Problem is that when you install macOs on the external drive the Boot Flag or Darwin bootloader will not be installed automatically. Problem then is that you cannot boot correctly from the drive. So right settings in the BIOS and a correct MBR wont let you boot. I solved it by taking the external HD apart and installing it in my computer as master. Then I installed MacOs, the bootloader gots installed! Afterwards I put the HD back in the external case, and I could boot from USB. There's an easier way installing on external drive: 1. install MacOS on a spare internal HD and clone the drive to the external drive (use Clonetool hatchery: http://nicemac.com/) 2. use a linux live cd and in the harddrive manager set "Boot Flag" to the OSX partition succes AntarcticP Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/57544-usb-external-drive-question/#findComment-411760 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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