hey can you pass on any hints to making your drive work from the external drive. I'm thinking I'm just forgetting a tiny step that keeps coming back to haunt me. I'm having trouble with my nForce chipset and the SATA config with it so my SATA drives are read-only for now and I have to install to an external HD connected via a USB-to-SATA converter cable so I can then use the chain0 method to boot. I'm going to list the steps I've taken and maybe you or somebody can point out where I've gone wrong.

1) running the install DVD, I open diskutil
2) repartition the whole external hard drive and also change the bootloader to MBR and format the drive to HFS+
3) install the OS
4) reboot from the DVD, open the Terminal
5) using <b>diskutil list</b>, I locate my disk
6) using <b>fdisk -e /dev/rdiskX</b> where X is the disk I've installed to
7) <b>p</b> to list the partitions
8) assuming the partition I installed to is partition 1, I type <b>f 1</b>
9) <b>w</b> or <b>write</b> to rewrite the bootloader to this partition
10) <b>y</b>
11) <b>exit</b>
12) <b>reboot</b>, I then take out the DVD, wait for the bios to load and I press <b>f12</b> to select the boot device.

When I select the external HD, the computer comes to a black screen with a single cursor flashing in the upper left corner... nothing.
I'm lost with what I am doing wrong.

(I know this was long and more drawn out than it needed to be, but I am still new to this and am hoping to get the problem nailed soon.)

Thanks.

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