Blank white bootcamp screen

I am a new iMac owner and am really enjoying Leopard on my 24" iMac. I used Bootcamp assistant to create a windows partition for xp. When I reboot holding the option key with an external usb hard drive and external usb dvd burner attached, a blank white screen is displayed. I disconnected all external non apple usb devices, installed xp and rebooted. I can boot either Leopard or XP as long as I do not reconnect the usb drives. If the hd or burner are connected, I see the Windows and OS X operating system choices but the computer freezes after clicking enter and neither system will boot. I have removed the bootcamp partition and the system will boot quickly into Leopard will all external firewire and usb devices attached. Any help will be appreciated.

You obviously already know this, but when you use the "Option" key the system looks for ALL bootable drives be they CD or HD. I've never heard of OS X getting stuck doing this if in fact you have drives connected that are not bootable, but who knows. You might feel like this is too much of a pain, but why don't you just leave them disconnected till you get past the boot sequence, then connect them? Just a thought! Oh, and I have also read in the forums somewhere that OS X don't like USB boot drives very well, and that it's better to have Firewire ones.

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