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10.4: How to boot an Intel Mac from an external drive
Authored by: oldluddite on Feb 07, '06 10:10:48PM

I formatted/partitioned (via GUID scheme on Intel iMac) an external hard drive; cloned system over from the iMac via Carbon Copy Cloner, did the usual Repair Permissions and so on. Booted up fine in Intel iMac. Did not boot up on G5; showed up in Startup Disc and on the desktop, but no boot. Cloned a system from the G5 onto another partition of this hard drive; cloned OK, but not bootable from either the G5 or iMac. Appears to me that we will need a separate firewire drive for each computer... at least so far. I would dearly like to boot both computers from one external hard drive, so if someone has been able to do it, please share the steps needed. thanks.



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