Hi all,
I've been reading up on the forums about booting from an external USB drive. I have an original 12in iBook G4 (800MHz) running Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger).
My reason for trying this is because my internal HDD is noting a failure in Disk Utility and is on it's way out so for the time being (until I can muster up the money for a new Hard Drive) I need to be able to boot from an external HD and the only one I have to hand is a Iomega 1TB.
Now, I have partitioned the drive to Mac OS X Extended (Journaled) and used CCC to copy all my files onto the drive, I also tried Pacifist which worked but would not let me boot after copying or even once enabling owners and journaling.
When I'm in Disk Utility and go to the Info on my external HD is says that the disk is bootable but I cannot see it in Startup Disk under my System Preferences.
Could anyone tell how this can be done? If you need anymore information just ask and I'll try my best to answer.
Thanks in advance,
James
I've been reading up on the forums about booting from an external USB drive. I have an original 12in iBook G4 (800MHz) running Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger).
My reason for trying this is because my internal HDD is noting a failure in Disk Utility and is on it's way out so for the time being (until I can muster up the money for a new Hard Drive) I need to be able to boot from an external HD and the only one I have to hand is a Iomega 1TB.
Now, I have partitioned the drive to Mac OS X Extended (Journaled) and used CCC to copy all my files onto the drive, I also tried Pacifist which worked but would not let me boot after copying or even once enabling owners and journaling.
When I'm in Disk Utility and go to the Info on my external HD is says that the disk is bootable but I cannot see it in Startup Disk under my System Preferences.
Could anyone tell how this can be done? If you need anymore information just ask and I'll try my best to answer.
Thanks in advance,
James