How to install tiger on external firewire drive

I'd like to upgrade my dual 2GHz Power PC G5 to 10.5, but I need access to OS9 from time to time. To solve this I wanted to install 10.4 with OS9 on my external HDD. I partitioned my Western Digital drive (connected by FW800) and installed 10.4 from the install disk. However, when I select it as the startup disk, the startup fails to identify the disk and starts from the internal drive.
I tried to follow instructions from an old post, but one thing that was different was that when partitioning my harddrive, I did not have the option for GUID, I just had the option for Apple Partion Map. Oddly, now that I installed OSX 10.4, the option for GUID appears, but still seams incorrect since I'm on a G5 CPU.
Any ideas why I can't boot from the external drive? Any suggestions on how to install OS9 and migrate my user folders over when I get it working?
Thanks,
Marcus

Many Western Digital firewire drives will not boot a PPC mac. From this WD support page:
http://wdc.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/wdc.cfg/php/enduser/stdadp.php?pfaqid=1787
The following external hard drives are not bootable on Power PC based Macintosh computers systems through USB/FireWire 1394(a/b):
* My Book Essential Edition
* My Book Essential Edition 2.0
* My Book Home Edition
* My Book Mirror Edition
* My Book Office Edition
* My Book Premium Edition II
* My Book Pro Edition II
* My Book Studio Edition
* My Book Studio Edition II
* My Passport Studio
* My Passport Elite
* My Passport Essential
* WD Passport
* WD Passport (Silver)
If your drive is new and on the list, I would try to return it and get a different brand.

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