Odd Question: 10.5.5 Not Recognizing External Drive as Start-Up Disk

Doctor X · #1 October 15th, 2008, 03:54 AM

This is not really a problem but an oddity. Maybe there is a way to "fix" it?

When trying to give what proved to be wrong advice, I discovered something.

I upgraded to a:

MacBook Black
300 Gig HD
2 Gig RAM
2 GHz Intel Core Duo

and happily ran my 10.4.11 After reading HERE and talking to people, I decided to try 10.5.

I backed up everything to my External HD in case I change my mind. Basically, I mirrored my Internal HD.

Upgraded.

Playing around with 10.5.5. Will probably stick with it.

Anyways, in trying to explain to another member how to reboot using Startup Disk from System Preferences I discovered that my External HD is not listed.

Now this is not a big problem--if I reboot with "Option" the External HD is listed. Booted on OS 10.4.11 from the External HD, its Startup Disk will recognize my Internal HD with the 10.5.5.

Both will recognize my old 10.4.6 disk.

Sooooooo . . . anything to "worry" about? Should I care?

One thing: when I was trying to upgrade to OS 10.5.5, the Installer would not "like" the disks with the 10.4.11 on them. It would "recognize" them but then tell me I would have to "change the installation settings"--as in ERASE! No idea why that would be the case. Disks checked out, blah . . . blah.

So after backing up, I erased the Internal HD, loaded the 10.5, clicked "Import User Settings" . . . poured a beer . . . watched Brazil . . . and everything was fine.

So, anything to "worry" about? Other than why I need a B27-6?

--J.D.