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Well, more than just a non-stock machine: this isn't Apple hardware at all, right? It's just a generic box you've managed to get OSX working on, no? (I don't mean this in a disparaging way, I just want to confirm the situation that I can't reproduce on any of the hardware I have here: this is not a standard OSX install, regardless of partition type.)
This has nothing to do with MBR: it's because the source partition doesn't have the proper standard configuration to be bootable in a standard way (for example, it doesn't have BootX in the right place). The files have been copied, and you'll have to repeat whatever you did to get the source partition booted on the destination.
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test case
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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". Quote:
If you want to test for this situation with "stock" Apple hardware, you could:
(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.) |
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Really, there was no need to be coy about this, and you could have saved us both a lot of time -- and me a lot of testing -- if you had just indicated this wasn't a real Mac in the first place.
Anyway, no, I just can't spend the time necessary to try to reproduce this situation -- once you step off the standards, you're kind of on your own. Sorry -- it's hard enough dealing with all the Macs that do get released to start dealing with non-Apple hardware with a nonstandard partitioning scheme (Disk Utility will partition with MBR, FYI) created with nonstandard tools, etc. As I indicated, your configuration doesn't have a BootX file in the proper place, so it's not going to be seen as a standard System folder and isn't going to bless properly. But if you mess about with it appropriately perhaps you'll be able to get it to work; feel free to indicate to others how you managed it, in this thread -- should they encounter a similar situation, they'll at least find this documentation.
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Sorry -- didn't mean to be coy. When asking for help with software, I try to pare down the details to just those that I believe to be necessary to reproduce the behavior, rather than just dumping everything I know and letting others sort out the details.
Can you point me to documentation of Superduper's requirement that a BootX file be in the proper place? The Superduper User's Guide does not include the word "bootx". |
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It's not our requirement. It's OSX's.
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I just did a quick Web search and found that BootX is only used with PowerPC-processor-based Macs. Those with Intel CPUs don't use BootX.
So the lack of existence of BootX must not be the problem in this case. |
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Not really relevant: BootX is present for all Macs.
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