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For some reason I only get the following entry in Console when booting from my clone. I've never seen this in Console booted from the internal.This is a Leopard only file and I have no idea what it's doing anywhere near this machine. I've never downloaded anything--that I know of-- related to Leopard. Besides, neither EasyFind nor Sherlock can find it anywhere--even set to search invisible-- either on the clone or the internal. It's not doing any harm, but it's a mystery I'd like to solve. It happened once a few months ago and again today after cloning. Searches came up empty handed both times.
I asked over at CCC when it first happened, and the only thing they could come up with was that it might be from some recent combined Tiger/Leopard update (don't know which it could be), but this answer isn't very satisfying, since I would expect to find it somewhere on this computer, either on the clone or the internal, if that were the case. I do have usr/standalone, but no i386 or i386/boot.efi there. The Tiger equivalent is BootX, which I do have in CoreServices.
Can't load /Volumes/OWC Neptune//usr/standalone/i386/boot.efi
Error while getting file ID of /Volumes/OWC Neptune/System/Library/CoreServices/boot.efi. Ignoring...
Can't load /Volumes/OWC Neptune//usr/standalone/i386/boot.efi
Error while getting file ID of /Volumes/OWC Neptune/System/Library/CoreServices/boot.efi. Ignoring...

I don't know too much about this, but here are some thoughts:
I believe that BootX <-> boot.efi is not a Tiger <-> Leopard thing, but rather a PPC <-> Intel thing. BootX is the system file that the boot firmware is supposed to find and run on a PPC system, and boot.efi is the corresponding file for an Intel system.
CCC presumably includes a "bless" command when it makes a bootable clone, telling the firmware where on the boot volume to look for the appropriate boot file.
From
man bless
FILES
/usr/standalone/ppc/bootx.bootinfo
Secondary loader with XML headers,
used with the --bootinfo flag. Used
for booting New World PPC-based Mac-
intoshes. If the argument to
--bootinfo is ommitted, this file
will be used as the default input.
/usr/standalone/i386/boot.efi
Booter for EFI-based systems, used
with the --bootefi flag. If the argu-
ment to --bootefi is ommitted, this
file will be used as the default
input.
/System/Library/CoreServices
Typical blessed folder for Mac OS X
and Darwin
======
To bless a volume with only Mac OS X or Darwin, and create the BootX and
boot.efi files as needed:
bless --folder "/Volumes/Mac OS X/System/Library/CoreServices"
--bootinfo --bootefi
I don't know enough about this to be sure, but maybe the CCC "blessing" on the clone is for some reason causing your PPC system to look for the Intel boot.efi file when it boots from the clone. Since your internal HD has never been "blessed" by CCC, it might not manifest the same behavior when it boots.

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