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External firewire drive fails to boot OS X after a restart
I have a G4 Cube that exhibits a perplexing boot issue on an external firewire drive. The external drive is a clone of the Cube's internal dual boot, two partition drive made with an identical 120 GB Seagate. The internal drive boots without incident into either OS X or OS 9 - each in it's own partition.
The problem comes when I select the external drive's OS X partition in Startup Disk and restart - the external drive's activity LED shows an initial attempt to boot but then hesitates and boots to the internal OS X partition repeatedly. As a workaround, I am able to select and boot to the OS 9 partition, either internally or externally, launch the StartUp Disk control panel, select the external OS X partition and reboot successfully into that partition. But upon a restart, it fails to boot into the external OS X partition repeating the aforementioned behavior i.e. it boots to the internal OS X partition. Using Option-Restart shows the the two partitions on the external drive and the two partitions on the internal drive normally but will only successfully process selecting either of the two OS 9 partitions or the internal OS X partition, again failing to process a selection to the external OS X partition. Interestingly, this same external firewire drive will repeatedly boot to it's OS X partition without incident using either of two iBook G4s. I'm stumped! Last edited by LEOinDC; 09-29-2008 at 09:03 AM. |
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It's possible that the Cube's older hardware doesn't support startup from this particular drive: anyone else out there using SD! with a Cube who could offer some advice?
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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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Sorry, I mis-read that. Weird. I have no idea why that would be... doesn't sound like spinup, because the drive appears in the list.
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