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Q: Is it possible to run an iMac on an external drive?

I have a 27" iMac running OSX 10.6.8.  I have done all the 16 steps, gotten a bootable (not so much ) WD 1TB My Passport (which has OSX installed on it),  Made a Thumb Drive (Also has OSX). SMART was failing and the HD (internal SATA 1TB ) I had partitioned to save the info before I had found All you good people. Now I can not boot from any recovery option, I did get into verbose last night finally and I now have kernel panics.  When I try to boot from either external I immediately have the kernel panic. So is there a way from verbose or GRUB to tell it (the Mac ) to boot from one of those?  Or do I have an expensive paper weight now?

iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.8)

Posted on Feb 19, 2016 6:12 AM

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