Jag installed on FW external won't boot

[Jim Robertson]

I have a 400 MHz TiBook that runs Jaguar 10.2.3. I'm trying to set up an
emergency boot FireWire utilities disk, using the 2.5 inch 10 Gbyte drive
that originally came in the laptop. I purchased a case/power supply
combination (it uses the Oxford Bridge Chip). The drive mounts fine on my
TiBook's desktop under OS X, and today I installed Jaguar on the newly
initialized disk.

The TiBook rebooted automatically at the end of the Jaguar installation, but
when I held the option key at boot, only my internal boot OS X System
Folder, my OS 9 internal System folder, and the OS X installation CD-ROM
were listed as boot drives. I started up from my usual system, then opened
Startup Disk within System Preferences. Here, the FireWire drive's System
Folder showed as a potential boot device. I selected it, restarted, and
briefly saw the question mark folder before the TiBook booted from its
internal drive. The disk activity light on the FireWire drive glows and
doesn't flicker until AFTER the boot process starts from the internal drive.

I can't find anything on Apple's website, the OS X help system on my TiBook,
or on the XLR8yourMac website that discusses why my new OS X 10.2 system on
my FireWire drive won't boot the TiBook.

Any ideas? Is there something I need to do to make the device bootable?

Thanks so much,

Jim Robertson
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