Re[2]: Ideas required on testing an application install
Re[2]: Ideas required on testing an application install
- Subject: Re[2]: Ideas required on testing an application install
- From: Peter Mulholland <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 19 Jul 2009 18:20:37 +0100
Hello Ian,
Sunday, July 19, 2009, 12:45:50 PM, you wrote:
> On 26 Jun 2009, at 5:30am, Bill Bumgarner wrote:
>> It'll be interested to see what kind of performance one achieves
>> when booting from an SD card. Given their price ($40 for a class-6
>> SDHC card), it would be an attractive and convenient option.
>> Certainly, I know that when I have a moment, I'm going to prep a
>> 16GB card with two bootable partitions; one containing an emergency
>> Leopard boot image configured to use my user account on the internal
>> drive and one that contains DiskWarrior and a couple of other tools.
> I was intrigued to read this and thought I would give it a go. I
> installed the latest Snow Leopard (10A411) onto a 16GB card that was
> hanging off my MacBook Pro using a USB2 card reader. It installed onto
> the card OK and it even appears as an available startup disk, but the
> Mac doesn't seem to want to boot off this "disk": just comes up with
> the question-mark-in-a-folder symbol. How do you get the SD card to
> act as a bootable drive?
It does boot from a USB2 hard disk, and the install CD will boot from a USB2 connected DVDROM too.
Perhaps the Mac EFI boot module doesnt simply boot off anything "USB Mass Storage Device", but only from certain types of mass storage device. It's a bit silly if that's the case, but there we are.
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Peter mailto:email@hidden
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