crampedson Posted November 7, 2007 Share Posted November 7, 2007 I happen to have a motherboard which doesn't support booting from a USB hard disk (At least I couldn't find any way!). I've therefore tried to hunt down a boot floppy or CD which can recognise and boot the hard disk. I've had no luck and was wondering if there is such a bootdisk or if there is some other solution. So close to Leopard goodness. Motherboard: Asus P4PE Internal HDD: 36gb SATA WD Raptor (Vista) Mac OS X Leopard by ToH on external USB HDD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
codermonkey Posted November 8, 2007 Share Posted November 8, 2007 i do not know of any disc was would achieve this. What mobo have you got? what BIOS is it running Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crampedson Posted November 8, 2007 Author Share Posted November 8, 2007 The motherboard is in my first post and the bios is version 1007, the latest possible. I've scoured the BIOS menus but nothing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zoomie Posted November 8, 2007 Share Posted November 8, 2007 Oh man, I think I have one of those mobos sitting in storage somewhere. I'd be shocked if anyone could get Leopard, or even Tiger installed on a mobo that is at least 5 yrs old. I should keep an eye on this thread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abhi262 Posted November 9, 2007 Share Posted November 9, 2007 just a thought here...try pressing f12 with your usb hdd connected and see if it gives you a choice to boot from usb. it probably won't work as you seem convinced it won't boot from a usb but theres no harm in trying... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zitounec Posted November 12, 2007 Share Posted November 12, 2007 The motherboard is in my first post and the bios is version 1007, the latest possible. I've scoured the BIOS menus but nothing. Go on your motherboard website support to see if there is a way to enable USB boot. By the way search in your bios menus and try to enable -Multiboot (of course) -USB Legacy Then reboot one time, enter your bios setup again and in the boot list choice you should find USB. Of course depending your bios... Good luck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
osxnub Posted November 12, 2007 Share Posted November 12, 2007 If you have XP, you could try to Multi-boot it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crampedson Posted November 13, 2007 Author Share Posted November 13, 2007 I tried F12, it didn't seem to do anything. However, I'm interested in Multi-boot, since I have Vista. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlpineRaven Posted November 15, 2007 Share Posted November 15, 2007 It didnt work for me. Cheers AP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BeefStake Posted November 16, 2007 Share Posted November 16, 2007 try booting with the install disc in teh drive (you know who i am ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crampedson Posted November 16, 2007 Author Share Posted November 16, 2007 I know this method bu this seems to be a temporary fix. I think I might get a 20gb IDE hard drive from somewhere... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Twinnie Posted November 18, 2007 Share Posted November 18, 2007 I'm having a similar problem to this guy. I just installed the Uphuck 10.4.9 1.4i release on an external HDD and it all went fine except it hung up when it was supposed to restart at the end of the install, don't know if that means it's not talking to the mobo right or something. I told my BIOS to boot the USB HDD, it found it alright, had the name and everything, but it just doesn't boot from it and jumps past it to the Vista boot on my main HDD, even when I select it from the boot options menu manually on startup. I didn't think I had to be using these boot loader things cos I wasn't dual-booting but is there something more that the Uphuck release doesn't automatically do in regards to booting? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~pcwiz Posted November 18, 2007 Share Posted November 18, 2007 I installed OS X 10.4.10 on a USB HDD and it worked fine. Don't see why it won't work on Leopard...maybe its your MoBo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
indiekiduk Posted November 19, 2007 Share Posted November 19, 2007 I restored the leopard dmg to the first partitoin of my USB drive and I could boot my PC off it but I had to type in rd=disk2s1 for me disk 0 is HD, disk 1 is CD, disk 2 is USB. Thus disk2s1 for usb partition 1. I installed leopard to partion 2 and that worked fine aswell. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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