Hi Norman, Thanks for asking as it never crossed my mind to verify
with DiskUtility. As it turns out DiskUtility also falsely reports
the USB volume as Bootable. I'm sure if I were to reformat the drive
while in the USB case it would correctly report as not bootable. The
drive was originally in a G4 Laptop where the bootblocks were
configured to boot into the System on the drive (no longer there by
the way). DiskUtility also pointed out it has the OS9 drivers
installed. Both of these items I'm guessing hosed the results. In
Apples order of checking I'm sure it checks early for USB devices and
marks them as not bootable. Further down the process it checks for
valid bootblocks or OS9 drivers and marks the volume as bootable. The
results are only due to the fact that the volume is a Franken-Drive
and would be configured completely different if it had not been in a
Laptop previously.
So good news - use Charles devInfo.rb example for calling the
ShellScript with confidence. I'd also bet somewhere in the bowels of
the OS there is a list that could be tapped into to get this same info.
Craig
On May 31, 2006, at 10:00 AM, realbasic-nug-
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Does disk utility tell you this drive is not bootable ?
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