[Macpartners] Dual-bootable external disk ??

[Anthony Porter]

I don't know about adding WINXP into the mix but below is a site with  
instructions we use to create PPC/Intel boot support drives for our  
Macs.

http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php? 
story=2006061610374449&query=intel%2Band%2Bppc%2Bboot%2Bdrive


Tony

Anthony Porter
DUE Desktop Support
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Building 12, Room 172
617-253-3184

On Aug 15, 2007, at 11:51 AM, Felix Kreisel wrote:

> Hello. I am trying to build a Firewire disk into an external tools-
> and-diagnostics device. I want to partition it into bootable disks
> for: Intel Mac OS X, PowerPC Mac OS X, WinXP.
>
> I readily concede that you can take a firewire drive, build an Intel
> OS X and boot from it.
> You can also take a firewire drive, build an PowerPC OS X and boot
> from it.
>
> However, when I tried to make two partitions with separate
> architecture OS X systems on each, the disk turned out not to be
> bootable.
>
> Am I asking for too much? Is my wish realistic?
>
>
> Felix Kreisel - Systems Engineer,
> Plasma Science & Fusion Center, MIT
> 617-253-8625   fjk at mit.edu
>
>
>
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