I installed jag on my ipod but when I try to boot it freezes at the apple on the startup. OS 9 boots from it but not X. OS 9 is also on the drive... Is that a problem? If anyone knows how to fix this i'd be most appreciative.
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Boot OSX from iPod?
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OSX will not boot from a Firewire or USB Drive. It says so in the manual, on the website, etc. OS 9 Doesn't have that restriction. Sorry but your Out of Luck.
TEG
TEG
i keep a small maintenance system on an external firewire partition, for utility and defrag, and it worked just fine, i installed it perfectly normally. I can't imagine why X won't start from the iPod, perhaps apple's forums cover this...?
pnw
pnw
it works, i used to have 10 on my ipod. i have gotten many more songs since then and had to remove it. but it does work. ipod gets real hot though. aslong as its under warranty boot away.Originally posted by paulwhannel
i keep a small maintenance system on an external firewire partition, for utility and defrag, and it worked just fine, i installed it perfectly normally. I can't imagine why X won't start from the iPod, perhaps apple's forums cover this...?
pnw
iJon
i've seen an PowerMac boot into 10.1 from an iPod. Haven't seen Jag do it yet but it may be possible. The fact that OS 9 is on there may be the problem. There isn't exactly a utility so you can declare them as 2 seperate startup disks. we had a similar prob at work with a Blue & White G3 after insatlling Jag. it didn't know where to boot from. after wiping the drive and installing Jag only it worked fine. I would try erasing 9 and reinstalling Jag and see what happens.