mott Posted February 22, 2006 Share Posted February 22, 2006 I have an external FireWire/USB2 hard drive which onec used to be the internal hard drive of my old iBook G4 (Screen shattered, rest her soul). It's now mounted in a pretty basic FireWire/USB2 case. Will I have any luck installing OSX on it and booting? I have an Athlon64 3000+ in an Asus K8V-E motherboard. At the moment I can't try plugging the drive in and seeing if the BIOS allows me to boot off it, because I have some stuff backed up onto it (my new iBook died =/) and I don't want to risk losing the backup. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/9701-install-osx-onto-firewireusb-external-hdd/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
nixblicker Posted February 22, 2006 Share Posted February 22, 2006 Yeah it works! I have on my computer! I booting WindowsXP, Fedora Core 4 and Mac OS X 10.4.4 from USB-Harddrive! But your BIOS has to support "Boot from USB-drive" Good luck! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/9701-install-osx-onto-firewireusb-external-hdd/#findComment-60463 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mott Posted February 24, 2006 Author Share Posted February 24, 2006 Hmm... I installed the Deadmoo image onto the USB drive, and connected it to the PC. It went straight to XP on the SATA drive, even though I set USB2.0 to firstboot. I then unplugged the SATA drive, so it had to boot from USB2.0 but all I get is: "Reboot and Select proper Boot Device etc. etc. etc" How can I find out if my BIOS supports USB-drive booting? I know it's a K8V-X SE motherboard. Also it's a shame to see the motherboard doesn't allow booting from FireWire I'm not a complete noob when it comes to either Macs or PCs, but I'm having difficulty with this OSX86 business... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/9701-install-osx-onto-firewireusb-external-hdd/#findComment-62436 Share on other sites More sharing options...
gamephreaker Posted February 24, 2006 Share Posted February 24, 2006 it keeps locking up on grey screen for me Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/9701-install-osx-onto-firewireusb-external-hdd/#findComment-62733 Share on other sites More sharing options...
gotanks0407 Posted February 24, 2006 Share Posted February 24, 2006 i have found a way to boot up mac os x86 even if your mother board does not support usb drives http://www.360insider.net/forums/showthread.php?t=203 all the info is there to do it it uses the windows operating system selector to do it sata and everything works with this method edit: you have to skip straight to step 4 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/9701-install-osx-onto-firewireusb-external-hdd/#findComment-62735 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mott Posted February 25, 2006 Author Share Posted February 25, 2006 I got it booting now... but I'm lockingup during bootup. In verbose modei get: "USB Notification: The device 'EHCI Root Hub Simulation" has caused anovercurrent condition. The hub it is attached to has been disabled." and then "Still waiting for root device" I've unplugged everything but the USB drive, and my wireless mouse/keyboard I am going to try unplugging that now Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/9701-install-osx-onto-firewireusb-external-hdd/#findComment-63009 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mott Posted February 25, 2006 Author Share Posted February 25, 2006 Tried that, still doesn't work. With Only the USB drive plugged in,I get told that "The IOUSBFamily is having trouble enumerating a USB device that has been plugged in. It will keep retrying." and then "The IOUSBFamily was not able to enumerate a device." Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/9701-install-osx-onto-firewireusb-external-hdd/#findComment-63019 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mac OSX Coder Posted February 25, 2006 Share Posted February 25, 2006 It varies between motherboards and external hard drives. If your motherboard can't detect the drive on the run, you will have to do some editting to get it to work. Are you guys trying to boot it off native or trying to install it with winxp? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/9701-install-osx-onto-firewireusb-external-hdd/#findComment-63020 Share on other sites More sharing options...
mott Posted February 25, 2006 Author Share Posted February 25, 2006 I disconnected my SATA Windows XP drive when I'm trying to boot OSX. I figure it's easier to open the case and tell the computer it only has one drive, rather than make it choose the right drive when it boots. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/9701-install-osx-onto-firewireusb-external-hdd/#findComment-63338 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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