One more time... (I know it's been asked many times before) -
What model Macs have the limitation that requires OS X to reside within the first 8 GB of hard drive space (i.e within a partition on the first 8 GB) in order to be bootable ?
A simle search in Apple's tech library brings up the answer:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106235
What factors come into play here that may affect this?
Apple's inability to debug their own boot code, er a, read that tech note.
I need to decide how to configure an 18 GB drive on a beige that will only contain OS X 10.2.8 (or eventually higher w/ XPF).
Unlike the classic Mac OS, this newfangled hodge-podge *nix-based Mac OS X suffers badly from FWS (Fragile Windows Syndrome), so it requires complete or partial reinstallation as a general fix for far too many problems. So I recommend always putting OS X on its own partition. Keep your private data away from it!
I have seen where people have stated they have OS 9.2 and OS X on the same unpartitioned large volume drive space.
Or even within that first <8GB partition. Stupidist thing I ever did! The intermingling of the two OS on the same partition causes MANY disk operations to slow down. OS X is a bazillion files in a mazillion directories. Apps that do searches for files, expecially installers, slow to a snail's pace, etc.
Only on newer Macs? I purchased a used Dual USB 700 MHz iBook over a year ago and it came with 9.2 & 10.2 on the under 8 GB partition scheme. Was that unnecessary? Now the partition is nearly full!
Read that tech note.
- Dan.
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