Question about the bootability of a MACOS X Volume |
November, 26, 2002 1:15 PM |
gchron |
I had just seen a program at the usr/sbin folder. The program is named bless. Can I use this program in order to blass a copied system folder at a CD??? Will the system boot??? I had copied the system library and all the UNIX Hidden directories by using the File Buddy Program. |
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Question about the bootability of a MACOS X Volume |
November, 27, 2002 12:31 PM |
naturist |
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There is a wonderful utility called Carbon Copy Cloner that does the copy and the blessing in one swell foop. I use it for moving my boot disk from one hard drive to another, or one partition to another, as well as for making backup copies. It will work using disk image files, although I am not sure about CDs. Note that there are two current versions, one for use under 10.2, the other for use under earlier 10.x versions. |
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Question about the bootability of a MACOS X Volume |
November, 26, 2002 3:19 PM |
OSXGuru |
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The most recent versions of bless do have at least some of the code that would be needed to make a volume bootable on Old World machines (assuming you also have the correct kernel extensions installed). But I haven't tried it myself to make sure that it works. |