[X4U] Dual Boot (PPC/Intel) Firewire HD?

Zane H. Healy healyzh at aracnet.com
Mon Oct 6 09:31:27 PDT 2008


> AFAIK, all you have to do is install Leopard (use the PPC machine or put a
> bootable clone of your ICBM (Intel-chip-based Mac)) onto a FWHD that's been
> formated with APM, not GUID, and it should boot either. Try it and let us know
> how it works.
> 
> Alternatively, partition the FWHD, formatted with APM, and put clones of each
> onto separate partitions.

OK, I got this working yesterday.  I took my old 160GB SATA drive that was
the system disk for my G5 2x2 when I bought it.  I partitioned it into two
equal APM partitions, backed my wifes MacBook up to a disk image on the 2nd
partition, and then restored that backup to the first partition.  It boots
on both my wifes Core 2 Duo MacBook and my PowerMac G5.  So far I've
installed DiskWarrior on it, and only just tracked down my copy of TechTool
Pro last night so I still need to install that and a few other tools.

It felt strange booting Mac OS X 10.5.5 on my PowerMac rather than 10.4.11.

		Zane




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