Bootable external hdd

Hi,

I'm have a MacPro running Tiger at work, and have copied the entire hard drive to my external firewire hdd via SuperDuper, and made it bootable. When I take this external hdd home and try to boot from it on my 24" iMac running Leopard, it completely freezes up giving me that gray screen (the one with all the foreign languages) and tells me I need to hold down the power button to restart. I've tried it numerous times with the same result. Is this happening because you can't run a bootable copy of Tiger on a machine that has Leopard on it?

I figured I could just run my work computer at home on my iMac. I actually need to figure this out because I will be working from home 3 days a week and need to be able to access my files. I was planning on just booting both machines from the external hdd and working off of it, wherever I am, home or office.

Any suggestions or insights would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Jeff

3.06 Ghz 24" iMac; 14 iBook G4 1.33, MacPro running Tiger (work), Mac OS X (10.5.6)

Posted on Dec 23, 2008 8:14 AM

17 replies

baltwo

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Jan 15, 2009 10:52 AM in response to Jeff Finn (home)

If you can't take time to do the syncing, quit trying to boot the iMac with a clone of the MacPro. Apparently, they're different enough that it's crashing the iMac. Just mount the ext HD and get to work on documents contained on the ext HD. Carry it back to work and transfer your work documents to the MacPro.

Jan 15, 2009 11:14 AM in response to Jeff Finn (home)

The program I mentioned above does not take much more than a minute or so to sync a normally used folder--you save the sync information, launch by double clicking the sync file, it compares the old and new and then updates as necessary. It is lightning fast for the sort of thing you would be doing. For instance, it just synced up two Documents folders, involving 14MBs of different data between the two folders, in 2 seconds. It took an additional second or two to double click the sync file and have the program launch. If you keep your working files in a single folder you can spend less than a minute syncing the work machine's version to the external drive's version, and an additional minute syncing the external drive to the home machine. This hardly seems an onerous waste of time to me.
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