Re: Boot with FW800 possible ?

2009-04-23 Thread Peter Hinchliffe
On 23/04/2009, at 5:23 PM, Robert Howells wrote: Hello list Does anybody know ? Is it possible to Boot from a Firewire 800 connected external drive to a PPC or Intel Mac Thanks Bob Google does not seem to give a positive answer ! As long as the external drive is not a WD MyBool, in whi

Re: Boot with FW800 possible ?

2009-04-23 Thread Robert Howells
On 23/04/2009, at 10:22 PM, Shay Telfer wrote: On 23/04/2009 5:23 PM, Robert Howells wrote: Hello list Does anybody know ? Is it possible to Boot from a Firewire 800 connected external drive to a PPC or Intel Mac Thanks Bob Google does not seem to give a positive answer ! Yes, I'm using

Re: Boot with FW800 possible ?

2009-04-23 Thread Shay Telfer
On 23/04/2009 5:23 PM, Robert Howells wrote: Hello list Does anybody know ? Is it possible to Boot from a Firewire 800 connected external drive to a PPC or Intel Mac Thanks Bob Google does not seem to give a positive answer ! Yes, I'm using an Intel MacBook Pro booted off FireWire 8

Re: Boot with FW800 possible ?

2009-04-23 Thread James Devenish
Hi, 2009/4/23 Robert Howells : > BUT what aboutFIREWIRE 800 . > Has anybody actually done it booted a PPC or an Intel Mac ? You're really not telling us what models this pertains to, so the answer is "officially yes, most of the time, but not on some older Macs, and in some cases you m

Re: Boot with FW800 possible ?

2009-04-23 Thread Robert Howells
On 23/04/2009, at 8:30 PM, James Devenish wrote: Hi Rob, In general you should be able to boot from FireWire by going into System Preferences and selecting the disk as the startup drive, or by holding down Option at startup. In a pinch, you might alternatively be able to use Command-Shift-Opti

Re: Boot with FW800 possible ?

2009-04-23 Thread James Devenish
Hi Rob, In general you should be able to boot from FireWire by going into System Preferences and selecting the disk as the startup drive, or by holding down Option at startup. In a pinch, you might alternatively be able to use Command-Shift-Option-Delete to ignore your internal disk when booting.

Boot with FW800 possible ?

2009-04-23 Thread Robert Howells
Hello list Does anybody know ? Is it possible to Boot from a Firewire 800 connected external drive to a PPC or Intel Mac Thanks Bob Google does not seem to give a positive answer ! -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives -