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Old 11-15-2006, 09:04 PM
scottb scottb is offline
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Tried a USB boot on Intel...

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Originally Posted by Timmy View Post
The FAQ seems to suggest that PPC Macs can't boot from a USB interface, however, I just came across this article:
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.p...61017084322177

Does anyone have any experience with booting from an external USB drive, and if so is it on a PPC or Intel Mac?
So far, I've not had luck with it.
My drive shows up (SmartDisk FireLite USB2) in the Startup Disk control pane, and I select it, but after a few seconds of what looks like a successful boot, it goes into command-line or single-user mode.

I partitioned as a GUID and cloned the drive using SD!

Have to spend more time on it later, but so far, no luck.

Scott
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