Booting Up with an External Drive Using FW400

I inherited a 'Quicksilver: Dual Mirror Door' from work. Which was deemed by the local Apple Techs as "dead motherboard". I have had a Mac G3 which I fried when I tried to upgrade the processor to G4. When it fried it was FRIED as in DEAD...nothing worked, not even the monitor. Now, this Quicksilver starts up normally, a folder icon comes up on the display and when I start up while holding the option key it won't acknowledge the internal hard drive or my external firewire 400 hard drive.
The computer is 4 years old, not much use to it...1.5 Gigs of Ram, batter on motherboard was replaced a few days ago, hard drive is a 1yrs Seagate ultra IDE, its a sweet machine! So I know the motherboard is not the problem here. Anyone has any clue/idea on what maybe the "pest" here?
Thanks,
Henry

And tried re-installing, but nothing happened.
Ah! So it does boot to the installer CD to at least get you that far. That suggests that the computer as such is okay, but you're missing an OS on the drive, or the drive is bad, but at least it eliminates 90% of other possible issues.
I know that is another way to startup the system.
Are you correctly working under the assumption that the Firewire drive has a bootable copy of an operating System that will boot on a MDD? Holding the option key will let you select from the drives where the computer has found a bootable system, and it isn't seeing your Firewire drive as such.
But again, maybe I should put a jumper on the drive, do you think that will work?
Take the hard drive out of the Firewire enclosure and put it in the computer? It should work, but so should trying to boot from the Firewire drive externally. Again, I would want to to establish that it has a bootable OS on it that will work with your computer.
Disk Tools
Disk Utility. This is available as a feature on the installer CD. If you think the drive inside the computer has 10.4 on it you should not use Disk Utility from any Panther disk less than 10.3.9. [Only use Mac OS X 10.4-compatible disk utilities with Mac OS X 10.4 volumes|http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=301269] Certainly wouldn't hurt to verify and repair the internal drive.

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