External firewire drive fails to boot OS X after a restart

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External firewire drive fails to boot OS X after a restart

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09-29-2008, 09:08 AM

LEOinDC

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Originally Posted by dnanian

It's possible that the Cube's older hardware doesn't support startup from this particular drive...

That's the kicker - it WILL boot to the external OS X partition, but only after selecting it from a running OS 9 partition first.

It repeatedly fails after subsequent restarts until you repeat the selection process from a running OS 9 partition again.

Last edited by LEOinDC; 09-29-2008 at 09:19 AM.

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