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From: DJW on 20 Mar 2010 10:46
I have a blue & white G3 running OS 10.3 with an external ATA drive
hooked up. I went to install OS 10.3 on it while it was hooked up to
USB. It said I could not do the installation because I would not be
able to boot from it. I looked at the specs for the tower and found
that the B & W tower can not boot from an external device via USB. OK
well it also has a firewire connection. I un-mounted the drive and
unplugged the USB and hot plugged in the firewire. After the drive
mounted I was able to do the OS installation. At the end of the
install it automatically wants to restart and go from booting from the
installer CD to the newly installed system on the drive. When that
happened it showed a folder icon with a system icon on it and then
flashed a question mark like it could not find a system on that hard
drive. It finally booted from my hard drive or maybe it was the CD do
not remember. Well I finally got back to my master HD and the OS 10.3
I use most days and went to startup disk. The external HD showed with
the newly installed system. I selected it and then restarted. The same
thing happened. How can I get it to boot? Why might this be happening?
I am connected to the computers internal firewire not a PCI card.
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