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Can't boot up from external FW disk
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Tom G
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Mar 24, 2002, 12:30 PM
 
Hello All

Can anyone help?

I have inserted my old Powerbook 10Gb disk into a "Macally" enclosure which I connect to my Powerbook ( G4 Titanium) via firewire cable and all seems OK . The disk mounts ( 2 of 2 partitions). I have installed OS 9.2 on the first partition and startup Disk control panel ( OS 9) and Startup Disk Pref Pane ( OS X) recognize the drive as having a valid system folder that can be used for booting . However when I reboot I get a blinking question mark then the powerbook defaults to one of my internal partitions. Also when I reboot with the option key depressed the firewire disk does not appear as one of the boot up choices. Any help or clues would be appreciated

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Mar 24, 2002, 08:50 PM
 
Some enclosures are simply not bootable. Not sure if the MacAlly one is one.
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May 10, 2002, 08:05 PM
 
What makes these drives bootable, I am getting one from my reseller that I can use for an external cdrw or ide drive, but he thinks that OSX is not at all bootable from any Firewire drive.
I know this to be incorrect, but what part of the spec is it that makes the drive bootable?

The reseller told me it has the Oxford 911 chipset.
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