USB Boot doesn't show Hard Disk

[psedog]

I've created a Snow Leopard boot disk using this method link. I created it on a 16GB CF Disk. I've tried it twice. First time I formatted the disk as eXfat with 1 partition. Next time I used Mac OS Extended for a 7Gig partition and fat32 for the rest.

Upon boot I get the normal install stuff like I do with the DVD, but then no hard disk shows up. I thought it was because of the eXfat which is why I tried again. I looked into the system profiler and I can see my seagate hard disk, but under disk utility it doesn't exist. My Sata DVD drive shows up though. If I boot off of the DVD I can see and install to my hard disk.

I'm trying to make a USB Disk because I'm planning on getting a SSD and I will be removing the Dvd drive.

I tried searching for a few hours through this site as I'm sure others have run into this issue. I was unable to find an answer though


Oh and I forgot. This is a Mid 2009 Macbook.

 

[psedog]

Am I really the only one to have this issue? I wonder if it is because I'm using a CF card and not a normal flash drive. It still doesn't make sense to me that the hard disk is present in the system profiler but not in disk utility.

 

[wrldwzrd89]

Snow Leopard can't boot from anything other than a disk with the GUID Partition Table scheme and HFS Plus file system.

 

[psedog]

What? I wrote that it did boot. It booted off of the cf 16gb card no problems, but then my hard drive doesn't show up. If I boot off of the DVD, the hard drive shows up.

 

[maccompaq]

Snow Leopard can't boot from anything other than a disk with the GUID Partition Table scheme and HFS Plus file system.

I used an 8 GB USB Flash drive to copy Snow Leopard to so I could boot from the USB Flash drive to install Snow Leopard to my Hackintosh.