[X4U] Startup via CF and firewire

[alexandre]

paul

when the new macbook pros with an sd card reader came out, i remember reading somewhere (macworld.com?) that you could create an emergency boot disk on an sd card to always have with you…

wait, try this (while replying, i googled out of curiosity!)

http://www.ehow.com/how_6305113_create-sd-card-bootdisk.html

http://www.mydellmini.com/forum/dell-mini-10v-mac-os-x-discussion/20503-creating-boot-disk-image-8gb-sd-card.html

http://www.macworld.com/article/135627/2009/07/sdcard_startup.html

HTH

alexandre

On Oct 22, 2010, at 19:45 , Paul Moortgat wrote:

> In a German Mac magazine they used a 16 GB USB memory stick and I thought that the Lexar CF card reader I've might work.
> The only thing is that I don't have a 16 GB CF card.  If someone else will tell me, I might buy one.  The magazine used it to have a repair startup device which one can take with you.
> 
> Paul Moortgat
> 
> 
> On 22 Oct 2010, at 19:35, Neil Laubenthal wrote:
> 
>> On Oct 22, 2010, at 1:15 PM, Paul Moortgat wrote:
>> 
>>> Is it possible to use a CF card and a firewire card reader to use as a startup device?  It's possible to use a USB stick, but I should like the CF solution if possible.
>>> 
>> 
>> 
>> I've never tried it . . .but you can boot from FW and as far as FW is concerned the CF card is just a drive volume . . .so I would imagine this will work fine. If you give it a try please report back and let us know.
>> 
>> 
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