Can't Boot From External Drive (Unsupported Hardware?)
Hi,
I have tried booting from my external hard drive using a 12" PowerBook G4. The hard drive enclosure has a PL3507 chip (not sure what revision number) and the hard drive was partitioned using the Apple Partition Scheme (as recommended by Apple for PowerPC-based machines).
From the Leopard DVD, I was able to do a clean install of OS X on the drive. However, after restarting, the gray screen appeared for more than 4-6 minutes, only to boot to the internal drive.
I then proceeded to select the external drive as the startup disk in System Preferences and tried rebooting again -- I still am unable to boot to the external drive. Is this simply a hardware compatibility problem?
The enclosure has both Firewire and USB connections. I only used Firewire to connect the enclosure to the PowerBook G4.
I have tried booting from my external hard drive using a 12" PowerBook G4. The hard drive enclosure has a PL3507 chip (not sure what revision number) and the hard drive was partitioned using the Apple Partition Scheme (as recommended by Apple for PowerPC-based machines).
From the Leopard DVD, I was able to do a clean install of OS X on the drive. However, after restarting, the gray screen appeared for more than 4-6 minutes, only to boot to the internal drive.
I then proceeded to select the external drive as the startup disk in System Preferences and tried rebooting again -- I still am unable to boot to the external drive. Is this simply a hardware compatibility problem?
The enclosure has both Firewire and USB connections. I only used Firewire to connect the enclosure to the PowerBook G4.
Mac mini 1.66GHz Intel dual core, Mac OS X (10.5), 12" PowerBook 1.5GHz G4 1.25GB