OSX has a CLI "bless" command which may do what is necessary. I'll try to look into this, I have a recent Mac Mini
Sean On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 6:16 PM, Jonas Smedegaard <d...@jones.dk> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: RIPEMD160 > > On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 08:19:53AM -0700, Caryl Bigenho wrote: >>I had an idea in the shower this am (some of my best ideas come while I >>am in the shower). I think I may know what is going on with the Macs >>and live Sugar CDs and how it might be fixed. >> >> >>According to Apple, when you boot with the option key down, the >>computer looks for all bootable items, eg the Mac HD, a Windows section >>(via Boot Camp), an external drive, a USB stick, or a CD in the Macs >>optical drive. The item must contain all elements needed to be >>bootable. Sooo.... > > Please beware that Apple might have a different interpretation for the > term "bootable". > > It might very well be (as was for sure with pre-Intel Macs!) that the > nice Apple boot selector only lists things looking Mac-like (i.e. looks > like a Darwin kernel). > > [...some google searching...] > > Indeed, that seems to be the case: You need to boot from a HFS+ > partition that is "blessed". A solution seems to be here: > http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=869324 > > > Beware that if "blessing" is similar to that of classic MacOS, then it > includes adding a small binary piece that is *not* free software. In > other words, it may be illegal to publish SoaS as pre-blessed images. > :-( > > > - Jonas > > - -- > * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist og Internet-arkitekt > * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ > > [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) > > iEYEAREDAAYFAkoZcuQACgkQn7DbMsAkQLjC1wCgh8v+TjGasKsNGHJNarJONbl1 > U1UAn0rjHnFuaaVWKv3zLlS/qnriFqQL > =1ldq > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > _______________________________________________ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep > _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep