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10.4: How to boot an Intel Mac from an external drive
Authored by: Jayce on Feb 07, '06 08:23:56AM

This tidbits article is interesting, but wrong !
The first tests I have made when I received my iMac Intel were all possible tests to boot the same OS for intel and PPC...
If I still can't use the same partition to boot PPC and Intel iMacs (because of the build difference between the 2 versions of Mac OS X), one thing that worked very well is to boot from 2 different partitions of the same disk !
A disk partitionned from an intel based mac CAN be used to boot from a PPC mac.

The possibility to boot the same OS for both platform will sure come in the future, we can already netboot a minimalist OS image...


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10.4: How to boot an Intel Mac from an external drive
Authored by: matx on Feb 07, '06 12:33:25PM

As for imaging and booting these new Intel beasts, you are required to make separate netboot/netinstall images, according to the Apple peeps on the osx-server/imaging/enterprise lists.


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10.4: How to boot an Intel Mac from an external drive
Authored by: pmccann on Feb 07, '06 01:44:05PM

OK, that's certainly true for now, as the Intel machines have different OS build numbers than regular old 10.4.4. But does anyone know whether this is going to be the case down the track? That is, when 10.4.5 comes out, will the same image (physically held on different partitions, different drives, whatever it takes...) boot both machines?

Thanks for any insight,
Paul



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