It's unsupported, but intel macs will boot from an APM volume. If you accidentally format your boot drive as an APM volume, at boot time it will take a little longer but it will boot eventually (you'll get the broken folder icon for a few seconds, then the apple icon).
-sri On Jun 8, 11:06 pm, John Carmonne <carmo...@aol.com> wrote: > HI ALL > I have an external FW USB 320 drive that I keep all my PPC install > software on, it's a lot cleaner way than discs and dirty optical > drives, I confused my self tonight and booted 10.5 with an Intel > MacBook and did a clean install, I thought that the drive had to be > formated GUID to boot an Intel machine,This drive I have is Apple > partition Map because I use it to boot all my PPC stuff and have > basic CCCs on it> Why does the MacBook boot from it. It has some > Intel Tiger install discs that came with it, > > John Carmonne > Yorba Linda USA > From Earl Cube 1.2 GHz -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
