Can't Boot to Firewire CD external

I've got a EZQuest external Firewire CD drive and though it will mount disks, I can't boot up from it. Does anybody know why?
thanx,
Ken

Not all external CD drives are bootable. Some versions of OS X will not start from an external optical drive (Jaguar and Panther.)

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