Why won't external show up on Startup Disk?
Hi Applers,
I'm trying to run Leopard off my external HD for my eMAc. My eMac specs agree with Leopard (so I don't think I need Leopard Assist). I installed Leopard on my 500GB hard drive: Nextar 3 enclosure with a Samsung hard drive inside. I formated it, put the cd onto the external HD as instructed, and am using Firewire 400 (on eMac and external HD).
All the research says all I have to do is select it on Startup Disk (under System Preferences) and click restart, or hold the Alt key (Option key in Mac world) and select my external HD when prompted, but it never appears in ether case. However it does appear on my desktop and whenever I'm saving files. I can read/write to it no problem. I checked it using Disk Utilities and nothing seems to be wrong.
Suggestions from other blogs were that eMacs can't read DVD's but I use to watch them all the time on my eMac. Another said I need to install MPlayerX, but it's unsupportable on Tiger so I can't install it. Installed the latest version of MPlayer for Tiger and even MPlayer osx Extended. Still bubkiss. Please help.
eMac:
Machine Model: PowerMac6,4
CPU Type: PowerPC G4 (1.2)
Number Of CPUs: 1
CPU Speed: 1.42 GHz
L2 Cache (per CPU): 512 KB
Memory: 1 GB
Bus Speed: 167 MHz
Boot ROM Version: 4.9.2f1
External HD :
Interface: Serial ATA-300
Buffer Size: 16MB
Drive Transfer Rate: 300 MBps
Internal Data Rate: 135 MBps
Seek Time: 8.9 ms (average) / 18 ms (max)
Track-to-Track Seek Time: 0.8 ms
Average Latency: 4.17 ms
Spindle Speed: 7200 rpm