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How to boot from my WD 1TB HD

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Turpentine

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I'm trying to figure out how to boot from my WD 1TB HD as my PowerBook G4's hard drive is toast. I have partitioned the WD DRIVE, and installed leopard. But computer still wants to boot from the internal drive. How do I get it to boot from the external? I tried the power then holding down option key and allthat came up was the broken internal drive. What am I doing wrong?
 
Is this a Firewire drive? PowerPC Macs (like your PowerBook) only boot from (external) Firewire drives, not USB drives.
 
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