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Originally Posted by dnanian
this isn't Apple hardware at all, right? It's just a generic box you've managed to get OSX working on, no?
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I'm not the original owner, so I can't trace all the parts that make up this computer back to their manufacture (and does Apple manufacture its own hardware, anyway?) but for all practical purposes, yes, you're correct.
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Originally Posted by dnanian
This has nothing to do with MBR
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Sorry for the confusion. I wasn't really referring to the master boot record, I meant "the MBR partition table scheme" as opposed to "the GPT (GUID partition table) scheme".
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Originally Posted by dranian
it's because the source partition doesn't have the proper standard configuration to be bootable in a standard way
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Hmm... I believe it is booting in the standard way, but on a proprietary OS, it's really hard to tell what's going on, so I can't say for sure. (Oh, how I miss the thorough documentation that often comes with
free software.)
If you want to test for this situation with "stock" Apple hardware, you could:
- Start with a new, un-partitioned hard disk in an Intel-processor-based Mac
- Create some partitions on it with something other than Apple's Disk Utility, such as fdisk, cfdisk, or sfdisk on GNU/Linux, possibly from a "live CD" distribution like KNOPPIX Linux (mine has three primary partitions and an extended partition that contains several others)
- Perform a standard installation of Mac OS X to one of the primary partition (I installed to the third one)
- Clone to another primary (mine: second), and tell Superduper to set that one as the startup disk
(FYI, I use a registered copy of Superduper on a Pismo all the time and am thoroughly satisfied with it when used for that purpose.)