[X4U] OS X won't install on external HD

[Cubeistan]

On 8/27/06, Peter van Peursem <sirius61 at nerdshack.com> wrote:
>
> On 27-aug-2006, at 3:29, Cubeistan wrote:
>
> > Thanks again John. This puppy has FW and USB, IDE & S-ATA, so I'd
> > think it should work. Oh am using a MacBook but that shouldn't
> > matter, should it?
>
> The MacBook does matter. Intel based Mac's use a different partition
> scheme than PowerPC based Mac's. A disk formatted on a PowerPC Mac
> will report on an Intel Mac the error you mentioned in your first
> message ('OS X cannot be installed on this disk')
> You will have to repartition the disk on the MacBook if you want to
> boot from that drive with the MacBook. Click on the Options button to
> choose the correct partition scheme (GUID Partition Table).
> You can use it now as a standard external drive on the MacBook and
> PowerPC based Mac's. If you repartition it with the new scheme I
> think you lose that  capability.
>
> Peter van Peursem
> sirius61 at nerdshack.com
>

Re-partitioned using GUID did the trick. Thanks Peter.
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ron s