Boot from Firewire

mmmpiemmmpie
Posted:
in Genius Bar edited January 2014
My ibooks internal drive is corrupted, so I reformatted my windows format firewire drive for the mac and installed os x on it.



I cant work out how to boot from it.

Is there a special key to press to boot from firewire?

Holding down option doesnt show it in the list of boot choices .



When I partitioned the drive I didnt install OS 9 drivers, are these required for booting???

Comments

  • Reply 1 of 6
    curiousuburbcuriousuburb Posts: 3,325member
    Apple's shortcut key list



    Quote:

    Press Option-Command-Shift-Delete during startup

    Result:

    Bypass primary startup volume and seek a different startup volume (such as a CD or external disk)



    in fact, "This actually forces the system to NOT load the driver for the default volume, which has the side effect mentioned above. For SCSI devices it searches from highest ID to lowest for a partition with a bootable system."



    does that work?



    If not, you can boot from the Panther install CD by holding C

    before you run the installer, you can access some Disk utility function from the menu bar

    might be enough to repair some drive corruption... or you might need DiskWarrior.
  • Reply 2 of 6
    mmmpiemmmpie Posts: 628member
    I havent tried that specific key combo, but the 'option' key lets you see all bootable devices and choose one to boot from, so its like the most general purpose solution. Only I dont see my firewire drive there.



    I can boot from the install cd, which I did to install os x on the firewire drive.



    Ive been unsucessful repairing the drive, with disk util, drive x, or nortons. At this point I just want to get my iBook to boot so I can dump the corrupt drive to my firewire drive and do a clean install.
  • Reply 3 of 6
    mmmpiemmmpie Posts: 628member
    I reformatted and reinstalled with OS 9 drivers installed.

    Doesnt seem to help.

    Holding cmd-opt-shft-del doesnt help.



    Is it possible to boot off of a firewire drive using an iBook 2001 ???
  • Reply 4 of 6
    gsfmarkgsfmark Posts: 210member
    that's really weird, i just installed os 10.3.2 on my external, without os 9 drivers, and it works fine... do you live near an Apple store?
  • Reply 5 of 6
    mmmpiemmmpie Posts: 628member
    My internal drive totally borked, so I took it my local Apple Store. They booted from an external firewire drive to try to recover it. No luck. iBook is now off to the mainland for a new drive.



    The flip side is, not all firewire drives are created equal, and it would appear, for some reason, that mine cant be booted from. I guess that some aspect of the open firmware driver for firewire drives doesnt like my enclosure. For reference, its a CompUSA, 3.5" Aluminium. It says OS X compatible on the box, just not quite



    Oh, well, lost all my data now. Lucky I dont do anything to important.
  • Reply 6 of 6
    sonofsylvanussonofsylvanus Posts: 579member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by mmmpie

    Lucky I dont do anything to important.



    Sorry, that just really made me laugh. Great attitude!
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