[G4] Making a Bootable Copy of a HD

[David Crandon]

CCC clones can have problems booting from Firewire drives sometimes.
It's discussed somewhere in the docs, including some workarounds.

David Crandon

"R. Sigismonti" wrote:
> 
> I have a G4 933MHz with 1.5GB of memory and a 60GB hard drive and a
> 10GB hard drive mounted internally.  I have OS X on the larger HD and
> OS 9.2.2 on the smaller one.  I recently purchased a 130GB external
> firewire HD from OWC and had planned on using it as a backup to my
> internal HD's.  I partitioned the 130GB HD so that I had a 11.78GB and
> a 100GB partition on which to store the two backups.  I used Carbon
> Copy Cloner v2.1.2 to clone the OS X HD.  The copy went beautifully,
> but when I tried to boot from the external HD, it stalled during the
> boot process and put the following at the left upper portion of my
> screen:
> 
> /etc/master.password:No such file or directory
> /etc/master.password:No such file or directory
> sh-2.05a# ______
> 
> I assume this is some sort of UNIX command line, but I do not have the
> foggiest as to what to do with it.  I tried my system administrator
> password, but it didn't work.  I looked on the OS X partition and there
> is an alias called etc in the root directory of the partition, but I
> could not find the actual etc folder.  When I searched for the same
> directory (folder) on my internal HD, it does not show up as being
> present.
> 
> Can anyone help me with this, or is there no way to boot from a
> firewire disk?
> 
> Sig
> 
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