Cheers for that -- I'm thinking the same way, after seeing how hot the ext drive is getting as a boot drive!
2009/2/10 Michael Holloway <mich...@thedarkwinter.com> > Doug, I'm no Mac user but I would throw caution to the wind when dual > booting between and internal and external hard drive. Could cause > problems with the MBR/active/boot partition being in the wrong location > when the drive is removed etc. > > I would suggest partitioning the internal hard drive and having that > boot both OS's, and use the external as a Data drive or something. > > Cheers, > Michael > > > On Tue, 2009-02-10 at 10:32 +0000, doug livesey wrote: > > Hi -- I tried last night to install Ubuntu on an external FW drive on > > my Macbook. > > It wouldn't reboot from the external drive, and managed to kill the > > install on my main HD -- hopefully the drive itself is ok, but I'm not > > sure (I can see it in the restore list). > > I tried restoring from TimeMachine to my internal drive, but that > > didn't work, so I ended up restoring OSX to the external drive, and am > > currently booting from that. > > What I'm hoping to do now, then, is to install Ubuntu on the internal > > HD, as I want to use it as my main dev environment anyway, so that > > could all have worked out in the end, if my internal HD is ok. > > I thought, however, I'd ask the expert collective about any potential > > gotchas before trying this -- there appear to be a few to ubuntu on a > > mac that I was not previously aware of! ;) > > Cheers, > > Doug. > > > -- > ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ >
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