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I have a Core2Duo Mac Mini running 10.5.1. I used the latest version of Carbon Copy Cloner (3.0.1) to duplicate the Mini's internal drive to an external firewire drive.
When I select the external drive as the startup volume in the "startup disk" preference pane, the Mini ignores this and boots from the internal drive and mounts the external drive,
I've attempted to be as scientific as possible: tried different HDs; tried different enclosures; tried both firewire and USB2; tried different cables; tried cloning using block copy method; tried cloning using the file copy method.
The results: I can boot from an external drive with cloned 10.4, but I can't boot from an external drive with cloned 10.5.
Has anyone successfully used Carbon Copy Cloner 3.0.1 to make a bootable clone of 10.5.1?
Thanks all -
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Try this in the Terminal...
sudo bless -folder '/Volumes/volume-name/System/Library/CoreServices' -setOF
Edit: substitute the appropriate name for "volume-name."
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I have a 10 GB FW drive on which I did a Leopard install and that boots both my QS933 and my MDD dual 1.25. I can't speak for an Intel clone, but is the external drive formatted to boot Intel Macs? - that might be the bugaboo. I then cloned the FW drive install to my MDD which wouldn't complete a Leopard install from the DVD. Sort of a backward answer to your question though....
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The drive needs to be reformatted using disk utility prior to cloning to it. IIRC, the drive format for Leopard should be GUID for it to be bootable. Boot from your Leopard DVD as if to install, switch to Disk Utility and pick the external drive to format it. Once the formatting is complete, quit the installer and reboot to the internal drive. Then clone your boot disk. Should work.
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[quote macphanatic]The drive needs to be reformatted using disk utility prior to cloning to it. IIRC, the drive format for Leopard should be GUID for it to be bootable. Boot from your Leopard DVD as if to install, switch to Disk Utility and pick the external drive to format it. Once the formatting is complete, quit the installer and reboot to the internal drive. Then clone your boot disk. Should work.
MacIntels can be booted from either GUID, or APM as discussed at least a dozen times before on this forum.
In fact the Leopard install disc is APM formatted!
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...the drive format for Leopard should be GUID...
It's not the format, it's the partion scheme {GPT}. As BGnR pointed out, MacIntels will boot with GUID or APM partioning. The startup Volume should be formatted as 'Mac OS Extended' or 'Mac OS Extended (Journaled)'.
That said, my Mini is booting from a MiniStack v2 on Firewire. It's partitioned as GUID with the volume formatted as Mac OS Extended (Journaled).
After cloning the internal to the MiniStack I did a permissions repair and haven't had any problems.
Either David S has a hardware problem or a permissions issue.
