did not work. I did not get the darwin prompt at all.

Go into your BIOS and do the following:

1. Move USB device to the top of your boot priority
2. Disable Hyper-Threading
3. Set Fastboot OFF

If you still do not see Darwin come up at all, describe your boot sequence in detail from power up to blank screen.

you need to also install a bootloader to the drive as just restoring it doesn't write this.

Chameleon right now is probably the best bet for him.

@nfoav8or
That is true but I still find it strange that he is unable to boot from the DVD. It appears to be burned correctly. I am thinking maybe he should download a liveCD of some sort. Something like Knoppix or even the bootable memtest disk. Just to make 100% sure that there is not an issue with the image. Actually an windows install disk would be better as we know it has been prepared correctly.
Every motherboard I have owned will display a blinking cursor when pointed to boot from device thats not bootable. Though the dozen mobos that I have experience with does not quite put a dent into whats out there so maybe im wrong to say this.

@bob5731
You can use this to install a bootloader to your external drive.
http://chameleon.osx86.hu/file_downl...-installer.zip

i was referring (in my last post) to him wanting to install FROM an external HD to his internal drive. I was simply adding to your steps to make sure this was able to be accomplished.

EDIT: unless he's using a different computer to post from, he should be able to boot since someone had to install something to his computer for him to be here online. I'm not convinced this is for real though.

@NFOav8r
No I forgot to mention that one. I could have swore you had mentioned it in an earlier post but I checked and I must have been thinking of a different thread.

Its to far away from April man ;)

I get a blinking cursor. But I have a MacBook pro and a dell e510. The dell will run windows will but iPC x86 at all. get jest me a blinking cursor!

A blinking cursor is much better then nothing at all. Did you download Chameleon http://chameleon.osx86.hu/file_downl...-installer.zip and install it to your external harddrive?

[EDIT] Rename the external hard drive to something without any spaces. If it was "iPC x86" rename it to something like "iPCx86"

Now get
boot0: MBR
boot0: MBR
boot0: MBR
boot0: error

Win using Chameleon.

Hmm maybe your drive isn't set to active.

Plug it into your mac and do the following:

1. Find the the disk & partition numbers by ether typing in Terminal or right clicking on the parition in Disk Utility and selecting Information. It should look something like disk1s2 where the first number is the drive and the second is the partion.

2. Then open Terminal and type the following text in green. Pressing enter for each line (Remember to replace the numbers below with those you found from step one.):
fdisk -e /dev/rdisk1 - Replacing "1" with your drive number
p
f 2 - Replacing "2" with your partion number
write
y
exit

Guys feel free to chime in with an easier method or other solution.
I don't remember if you said you were wanting to dual boot or just install OSX?

Please do not PM a copy of your latest post as I subscribe to the threads i post on.