[abbottdr]

anyone know if i can boot my tibook from an external drive without an internal drive in it? the internal one is going off for repairs tomorrow and i don't particularly want to temporarily put back the original failing drive it replaced.

[pcummins]

Should be possible, although I haven't tried it, you'd probably need to hold down Option first to make sure it boots off the external drive.

[abbottdr]

or just select the external drive in sys. prefs as the startup disk before i remove the internal. anyone know for sure? don't want to try it and have my powerbook dissolve into thin air!

[ibook_steve]

It should work fine as long as it's not an external USB drive. It would have to be Firewire.

Steve

[abbottdr]

it is firewire. thanks very much!

[Andy8]

I have been booting from a firewire drive for about 6 months, no trouble. My internal drive died about the same time.