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I have a 15" Aluminum Powerbook and just recently bought a Lacie D2 250 GB triple interface hard drive. I used Carbon Copy Cloner to create a bootable copy of my hard drive. I was able to boot from the hard drive using OPTION+CMD+SHIFT+DELETE during system boot as a test to simulate what I would need to do if my internal drive died. Everything seemed to work fine except for the fact that my wireless ethernet was not working. Is this simply a limitation of booting from an external drive or is there some setting I need to configure
Describe not working. You should be able to boot from external drive with no consequences (aside from issues with the connection with the drive and any particulars dealing with the drive).
12" Powerbook 1.5GHz/SuperDrive, 1.25GB Ram, 80GB HD, Airport Extreme, Mac OS X 10.4.11 Tiger
iBook (Late 2001)600MHz/Combo, 640MB RAM, 20GB HD, Airport, Mac OS X 10.3.9 Panther — web server
The wireless airport card appears not to exist on the system at all. It is greyed out in the network area of system preferences. I also noticed that my bluetooth mouse and keyboard do not show up in the system preferences.
Issue was resolved. A quick fsck at boot and repair of disk permissions cleaned up the disk. The backup on my external hard drive is now indistinguishable from the internal hard drive. I also tweaked a few of the advanced settins in CCC so network related settings and pwoer management do not get ignored.
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