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Firewire drive startup problem: OSX 10.4.7
I just erased (diskutility) a Firewire drive (both the "drive" and the "partition" on a drive (Wiebetech Duo-800(500GB)) drive which as booted successfully with Superdrive clones before.
But this time, no joy. The "dev" folder appears when I open the drive with Finder; as I understand it, this folder should be invisible for bootable drives. I did a "smart" update to the newly erased drive with the "backup all files" settings. The drive appears on the system preferences Startup preference panel, but not on the "option restart" list. When the Startup Preference is set to this drive, the gray startup screen shows the folder with the question mark icon, before booting from my internal drive. Any clues as to what I've done incorrectly here? Just before this, I cloned a safety (offsite) backup by just erasing the drive with DiskUtility, then backing up. It booted fine. Ed
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The "dev" folder appearing is actually expected -- OSX returns incorrect Finder flags and metadata for /dev when you're booted from the drive. Finder should hide it when you restart from it, though (and it won't hurt anything).
As far as a restart goes, Ed -- it's hard to say. Usually, if it doesn't show up at Option-boot, it's because:
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"MBR?" "GUID?" I didn't set either of those "partition" options; in fact, I just "erased" the drive (no OS 9 drivers, case insensitive Mac OS Extended (Journalled)), then erased the volume.
Maybe I'll go back to zero again (yikes, another 1 hour full backup), and reset everything. The computer in question is a G5 2.5 dual processor. Ed
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Don't do that, Ed. Select the drive (not volume) in Disk Utility, switch to the partition tab, and look at the bottom. What partition format does it say is used?
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Too late. I did check when I "repartitioned" that the option was set to Apple Partition Map; I didn't look at what it was set at before I hit the "partition" button.
So I'll let you know if all is OK again after the backup. If it doesn't work again, is there anything else you can think of that I should check? Ed
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Yes. What I'd do is power everything off, including the FW drive. Then -- with the FW drive unplugged -- get to the Option boot screen and wait for the watch to change to an arrow.
Once there, plug in the FW drive and listen for it spinning up. Once up, plug in FW and refresh Option-boot: let's see if the drive shows up.
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