[Ti] FireWire Startup Disk Problem

Leo D. Venezuela levenezu at myrealbox.com
Thu Jan 1 07:32:03 PST 1970


Thank you Kynan. My previous journeys to the Apple Knowledge Base 
didn't lead me to the documents you've suggested.

At 12:23 PM -0500 3/7/03, Kynan Shook wrote:
>Here are some links to steps to take to solve this sort of problem, 
>courtesy of Apple's Knowledgebase:
><http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106805>
><http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106464>
>
>
>"Leo D. Venezuela" <levenezu at myrealbox.com> writes:
>>I wanted to make the FireWire drive into an OS X startup disk. I
>>installed OS X 10.2 on the FireWire drive and upgraded the
>>installation to 10.2.6. I then selected the FireWire drive as the
>>startup disk in the Startup Disk option in System Preferences. My
>>TiBook then restarted. However, after the startup gray apple
>>disappeared, it was replaced with a gray "forbidden" sign and the
>>startup process wouldn't continue further. I also tried to boot from
>>the FireWire drive by pressing the Alt/Option key during the startup
>>process and selecting the FireWire drive. But after selecting it, I
>>also get the "forbidden" sign and the process wouldn't proceed
>>further. I've already installed the PowerBook Firmware Update 4.1.8
>>but the problem persists.

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