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

[John Baltutis]

On 10/6/08, "Zane H. Healy" <healyzh at aracnet.com> wrote:
>  I wrote:
>> 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.

Glad you got it working.