will iMac boot OS X from external firewire drive

[Rick Harrison]

Copied entire contents of internal hard drive to external drive for
backup. Can select and boot from external copy of OS 9 but X does not
seem to work. Does this mean I would need to re-install X on the
external drive to make it bootable (just copying files not good
enough), or is it impossible to boot the iMac in X from an external
firwire drive?

[jeff]

Rick Harrison wrote:

> Copied entire contents of internal hard drive to external drive for
> backup. Can select and boot from external copy of OS 9 but X does not
> seem to work. Does this mean I would need to re-install X on the
> external drive to make it bootable (just copying files not good
> enough), or is it impossible to boot the iMac in X from an external
> firwire drive?

I've booted from a Carbon Copy Cloner created image of OSX on an external
firewire drive.
-jeff

[Simon Slavin]

In article <290620031748119730%mcojob-nospam@yahoo.com>,
Rick Harrison <mcojob-nospam@yahoo.com> wrote:

>is it impossible to boot the iMac in X from an external
>firwire drive?

The drive itself has to support booting. Some do, some don't.

[Rick Harrison]

In article <BB27CC9A96685EEABB@10.0.1.2>, Simon Slavin
<slavins@hearsay.demon.co.uk@localhost> wrote:

> The drive itself has to support booting. Some do, some don't.

Well, I reinstalled OS X 10.2.6 on the LaCie external drive and it now
boots just fine. It seems to be nearly as fast as the internal drive
and much quieter.