Booting the Mac OS from a firewire drive

[Mr Dude]

>>  I asked this question before I bought 2.3, but I never got around to
trying it. I wanted to install YDL on the internal drive and boot from a
firewire drive when I wanted to use the Mac OS, someone from YDL 
replied that
they had never tried it. Here's what I have; A white mid 2002 dual usb
700MHz iBook with 384RAM 40GB HD Airport card istalled, and a LaCie 
120GB
firewire drive. Here's what I did; I had Mac OS 10.2.6 installed on the
firewire drive before I installed YDL 3.0 on the iBook's internal 
drive. YDL
3.0 is the only OS installed on the internal iBook drive. With the iBook
powered off I plug in the firewire drive then I start up and get to the 
login screen for YDL 3.0, I don't log into YDL I click on the reboot 
button and when I hear the chime I press the
option key. After a bit there are two icons on the screen representing 
the
two drives, and I can pick which one I want to boot off of. For some 
reason
holding the option key won't do that when the computer first starts up, 
I
always have to start up and get to the YDL login screen then reboot, and
then hold the option key down. Don't know if anyone will care, but I 
thought
I'd share that.