Re: need help with external bootable drive

2016-06-16 Thread Gary
> To: Macvisionaries ; > macvoiceo...@freelists.org > Subject: need help with external bootable drive > > Hi everyone, > I need a guru. > > Using my 2008 iMac with Snow Leopard installed, I installed Snow Leopard on a > 1TB external drive. I created a GUID partitio

RE: need help with external bootable drive

2016-06-16 Thread Simon Fogarty
happens. -Original Message- From: macvisionaries@googlegroups.com [mailto:macvisionaries@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Gary Sent: Thursday, 16 June 2016 4:08 AM To: Macvisionaries ; macvoiceo...@freelists.org Subject: need help with external bootable drive Hi everyone, I need a guru

Re: need help with external bootable drive

2016-06-15 Thread Gary
Okay, thanks for the suggestions. I;ll look into it and see what I find. Gary > On Jun 15, 2016, at 11:37 AM, erik burggraaf wrote: > > Hi, is it possible that snowleppard isn't supported by the modern bootloader > on your 2013-2014 systems? I don't see why this shouldn't work, but maybe if >

Re: need help with external bootable drive

2016-06-15 Thread erik burggraaf
Hi, is it possible that snowleppard isn't supported by the modern bootloader on your 2013-2014 systems? I don't see why this shouldn't work, but maybe if you google the above you will turn something up. Also, if you happen to have either another old hard drive or a 128 gb sd card, why not try

Re: need help with external bootable drive

2016-06-15 Thread Tim Kilburn
Hi, As far as I can tell, the newer Macs will not boot to 10.6.8. It's kind of a hardware thing. Macs usually will not boot from a system prior to the system that was released with that unit. You can upgrade to newer systems, but downgrading or booting from a MacOS prior is usually not suppo

need help with external bootable drive

2016-06-15 Thread Gary
Hi everyone, I need a guru. Using my 2008 iMac with Snow Leopard installed, I installed Snow Leopard on a 1TB external drive. I created a GUID partitioned and formatted it as OS X Extended Journaled. Using the Option key at start up I can boot up using the external drive. However, I can’t se