Uncharted Drake's Fortune won't load on External HDD

I ripped the original Uncharted 1 (BCUS98103) disc to external HDD using multiman 4.17.05, I am on Rogero 4.30 v2.03

When trying to load the game on external, after the spinning scroll/coin screen I get a black screen.

This doesn't happen when booting directly from BD.

I tried booting with/without disc, with/without BD-mirror and nothing worked.
I tried installing/not installing the latest 1.10 patch, still nothing worked.

Anyone know how to fix this situation? I will not entertain loading from internal; I only want to play on external.