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Title: External firewire boot
Post by: ADSR on May 16, 2008, 10:13:39 AM: After cloning to an external firewire 250 gb (5 partitions)....could choose it in start up window but impossible to boot from it
(it's DW ok...)

Is the 120 gb limit also on external drives or what could it be ...???

Thanks

GR
Title: External firewire boot
Post by: gunug on May 16, 2008, 06:56:45 PM: Which machine and what OS are you doing this on? I can recall having problems with my AGP-G4 that might have had to do with the size and location of the boot partition on the drive. Could it work with a "small" partition at the beginning of the drive that had a OS 9.2 system on it as well? I've also had external firewire boxes that didn't work with a given machine. I'm sure the devil's in the details!

I also think I can recall something not working in a similar situation when an subversion upgrade took place 10.4.5 or so to 10.4.10?
Title: External firewire boot
Post by: ADSR on May 17, 2008, 05:09:17 AM: Using a DA whith TIGER 10.4.11....

The partition i 'm trying to boot is the first in the external drive and it's about 45 GB...

I 'm quite sure the boot was possible before

Thanks

GR
Title: External firewire boot
Post by: krissel on May 19, 2008, 04:08:51 AM: Have you tried changing the FW cables and noting which port you are using when you have trouble with this and the DW reports?

Could be one of the ports or cables is flakey and giving you these problems.
Title: External firewire boot
Post by: ADSR on May 19, 2008, 06:20:49 AM: Tryed changing cable and firewire port....one more strange thing about this drive...

WD2500JB-00GVA0 :

Fabricant :   DMI
Modèle :   0x550
GUID :   0x1010055000AA8A
Vitesse maximum :   Jusqu’à 400 Mb/s
Vitesse de connexion :   Jusqu’à 400 Mb/s
Sous-unités :
WD2500JB-00GVA0 Unit :
Version du logiciel de l’unité :   0x10483
Identifiant de l’unité :   0x609E
Révision du programme interne :   0x310
Niveau de révision du produit :   3.10
Sous-unités :
WD2500JB-00GVA0 SBP-LUN :
Capacité :   232.89 Go
Support amovible :   Oui
Nom BSD :   disk3
Gestionnaires OS9 :   Oui
État S.M.A.R.T. :   Non géré

TT can see the volume partitions but can see the drive itself to test

Should i reformat..?

GR
Title: External firewire boot
Post by: krissel on May 20, 2008, 02:15:39 AM: I just fired up TTP to see if I could find out why you are having trouble and all I get is the beach ball when I ask it to do something.

This is the first time I've tried it with Tiger yet it is an OK version 4.1.2.

Oh well, don't have time to play tonight.

Try running the tests on what it can see and maybe it will 'shock' it into seeing the drive itself.
Title: External firewire boot
Post by: MamaMoose on May 20, 2008, 02:37:56 AM: What software did you use to clone volumes to the external drive? The only one I trust to result in a bootable volume is Superduper! Other kinds of software may not work as well.

MamaMoose
Title: External firewire boot
Post by: ADSR on May 20, 2008, 05:31:14 AM: TTP is 4.1.2...and i bought and use Superduper 2.5

Wondering if the fact that TT can't see the drive has something to do whith the booting of that drive ...

As i got a lot of things on it i wait for reformating ...would it be a good thing?

Thanks

GR
Title: External firewire boot
Post by: MamaMoose on May 21, 2008, 02:18:13 AM: Do you have DiskWarrior. If you do, check to see if DW "sees" the drive.

MamaMoose
Title: External firewire boot
Post by: ADSR on May 21, 2008, 04:37:19 AM: Yes DW can see the drive...

Relaunch TT and found it but "not compatible to test

The drive is OK but can't boot on it even on the OS9 partition.

Maybe it's the enclosure "Silver Touch"...i'm quite sure i was able to boot on it before,

I bought it on ebay but Macway sells them so they should be compatible...

What can i do else..?

Thanks

GR
Title: External firewire boot
Post by: krissel on May 22, 2008, 01:59:23 AM: Lot of work but you could try swapping the external drive with an internal and see if the same problem exists. If so, the enclosure is your problem.