Boot with FW800 possible ?
Hello list Does anybody know ? Is it possible to Boot from a Firewire 800 connected external drive to a PPC or Intel Mac Thanks Bob Google does not seem to give a positive answer ! -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Boot with FW800 possible ?
Hi Rob, In general you should be able to boot from FireWire by going into System Preferences and selecting the disk as the startup drive, or by holding down Option at startup. In a pinch, you might alternatively be able to use Command-Shift-Option-Delete to ignore your internal disk when booting. HOWEVER there is a difference in the boot partitioning system for Intel versus PPC, so it may turn out that you can only boot the platform that the disk was formatted for... James -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Boot with FW800 possible ?
On 23/04/2009, at 8:30 PM, James Devenish wrote: Hi Rob, In general you should be able to boot from FireWire by going into System Preferences and selecting the disk as the startup drive, or by holding down Option at startup. In a pinch, you might alternatively be able to use Command-Shift-Option-Delete to ignore your internal disk when booting. HOWEVER there is a difference in the boot partitioning system for Intel versus PPC, so it may turn out that you can only boot the platform that the disk was formatted for... James Thanks James , I know about Firewire 400 and I can tell you that for some enclosures like WD Mybook for an intel Mac you must have it Partitioned GUID and Formatted MacOS extended journaled BUT what aboutFIREWIRE 800 . Has anybody actually done it booted a PPC or an Intel Mac ? Thanks Bob -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Boot with FW800 possible ?
Hi, 2009/4/23 Robert Howells rhowe...@arach.net.au: BUT what aboutFIREWIRE 800 . Has anybody actually done it booted a PPC or an Intel Mac ? You're really not telling us what models this pertains to, so the answer is officially yes, most of the time, but not on some older Macs, and in some cases you may have to apply a firmware update. I haven't heard of any rule specifically preventing FireWire 800 Macs from booting via FireWire 800, so if anything it would be the FireWire 400 macs that might not boot. I have booted an Xserve with FW 800, but I can only guess that this doesn't answer question. You might take heart from this website: http://macperformanceguide.com/Mac-BootDriveDogma.html (answer: at least one person has done it successfully with one model that wasn't an Xserve). Note that with laptops, you may have to have the AC adaptor plugged in if you want to boot from a bus-powered FireWire drive. James -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Boot with FW800 possible ?
On 23/04/2009 5:23 PM, Robert Howells wrote: Hello list Does anybody know ? Is it possible to Boot from a Firewire 800 connected external drive to a PPC or Intel Mac Thanks Bob Google does not seem to give a positive answer ! Yes, I'm using an Intel MacBook Pro booted off FireWire 800 at the moment. It's just like FireWire 400 only faster :) Have fun, Shay -- === Shay Telfer Perth, Western Australia Technomancer The love of liberty is the love Opinions for hire [POQ] of others; the love of power is http://newtonslore.com/fnord the love of ourselves - Hazlitt -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Boot with FW800 possible ?
On 23/04/2009, at 10:22 PM, Shay Telfer wrote: On 23/04/2009 5:23 PM, Robert Howells wrote: Hello list Does anybody know ? Is it possible to Boot from a Firewire 800 connected external drive to a PPC or Intel Mac Thanks Bob Google does not seem to give a positive answer ! Yes, I'm using an Intel MacBook Pro booted off FireWire 800 at the moment. It's just like FireWire 400 only faster :) Have fun, Shay Thank you Shay and James Bob -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Boot with FW800 possible ?
On 23/04/2009, at 5:23 PM, Robert Howells wrote: Hello list Does anybody know ? Is it possible to Boot from a Firewire 800 connected external drive to a PPC or Intel Mac Thanks Bob Google does not seem to give a positive answer ! As long as the external drive is not a WD MyBool, in which case It certainly will not work if you're on a PPC Mac, but it MAY work if (a) your machine is an Intel Mac, and (b) your external drive use a GUID partition map. AFIK, most other enclosures are fine with this. -- Peter HinchliffeApwin Computer Services FileMaker Pro Solutions Developer Perth, Western Australia Phone (618) 9332 6482Fax (618) 9332 0913 Mac because I prefer it -- Windows because I have to. -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
