Leopard (9A559) wont boot from firewire HDD

[gtsmith]

+++ UPDATE for the UPDATE +++

My second question is still open:

Is there a way to point my home directory to my external drive so that all the shortcuts and links in Finder will point out to my external drive and not the install drive?

 

Any one know how?

 

 

+++ UPDATE +++

Never mind. I have a bad HDD. I reinstalled Leopard on another HDD in the same firewire enclosure and it's all fine. The other drive is acting real strange...windows machines take about 20 minutes to boot if this drive is attached. Once booted I can copy stuff to the drive and read from it. Reboot the machine and wait 20 minutes to boot. Oh well...this one is going to hit the trash...what a waste of a 250GB drive :-( Thanks for reading!

 

 

Hey all,

 

I've done my research and know that this issue has been discussed, I just haven't found a solution. Here's the situation: Leopard DMG installs and boots fine on my internal HDD. Leopard installs onto my external HDD (Firewire) and all I can get is the grey screen with apple and spinning circle. It will boot to the external drive if I try safe mode, but it won't boot normal. The drive is fine as I have installed Tiger on it as a test and it boots without issue post installation.

 

I am fully planning on buying Leopard when it hits stores, but only if they fix this issue. I have a mac mini (customized - changed CPU to a C2D and upgraded RAM to 2GBs) but it only has a 60GB HDD. I have over 200GBs of music and vids - thus my need for an external (actually my mac mini Tiger has been booting to firewire drive since the day i bought it and frankenstein-ed it).

 

So I guess my questions are:

Is Apple even aware of this issue?

Is there a way to point my home directory to my external drive so that all the shortcuts and links in Finder will point out to my external drive and not the install drive?

 

Thanks in advance,

GT