Re: can't start up with FW drive

Subject: Re: can't start up with FW drive

From: Jim Cartlidge <email@hidden>

Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2007 15:29:39 -0800

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This is how I handled supporting a mixed Intel/PPC environment:

I partitioned my external FW into two small (15 GB) and one larger partition (the rest of the drive) One small partition has a PPC version of 10.4 on it, the other small partition has an Intel version of 10.4 on it and the large partition has my Net Restore software and disk images.

When I boot a computer connected to the FW drive by holding down the Option key, the appropriate drive appears as a boot option.

Hint: I made my Intel boot partition by taking a new Intel Mac, stripping out all the stuff I didn't need (Apps, etc) and then used NetRestore to clone it to my Intel partition.

Works like a charm!

On 11-Jan-07, at 11:31 AM, Laurie Yalem wrote:

At the beginning of the school year we bought some Intel minis for a lab.

I took one of our firewire drives, reformatted it and put the Intel Tiger

OS 10.4.6 on it that came with the Minis. That enabled me to use

NetHelper/Restore to make a golden image of one of the minis. I've run

SWupdate and updated these minis and want to make a new image, however I

can't. I can't start up from the Firewire drive. I've tried holding down

the c key, choosing the 10.4.6 system to start from within Syst Prefs, but

it only boots to the mini which now has 10.4.8. Does anyone have a clue

as to why this won't work? I thought it might be because the Firewire

system is older than the minis, so I tried to download and install the

SWupdate 10.4.8 onto the FW drive, but it won't let me choose that as a

viable place to install the update. Any help would be appreciated.

Jim Cartlidge

Computer Resources Dept Head

Brookswood Secondary School

20902 37A Ave

Langley, BC Canada

604-530-2141 ext 250

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