sillypixie's Journal: Answer to Mac geek stuff

I love it when a plan comes together :)

Turns out I was right to worry. So -- there are 3 kinds of partitioning schemes for a disk, when you go to partition, you have to know to click on "options" and then you'll see the three types:

• Guid Partition table -- this one lets you boot an Intel Mac off of the partition. This, oddly, was not the default.
• Apple Partition Map -- lets you boot a PPC Mac.
• Master Boot Record -- lets you boot dos/windows. This was the default.

When you use the "bless" command, information gets written into the HFS volume header -- which explains how a totally different machine could know that there was a boot partition on the drive.

As soon as I used a GUID partition table and reran rsync, everything looked great -- and I could tell it worked, by going to System Preferences->Startup disk -- my blessed partition now shows up as a bootable partition.

So all's well that ends well...

Cheers,

Pix

Tell it to the pope...

[johndiii]

I'm sure that he could help with blessing your partitions. :-)

Re:

[sillypixie]

Pssht, as far as I'm concerned, everything touch is blessed...

oh did I say that out loud? I'm such a blasphemer!

inner voice pixie, inner voice....