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dmmcintyre3
Apr 22, 2009, 06:37 PM
I have it formatted HFS+ and Apple Partition Map. It is a FireWire drive. I'm on PPC. Nothing I try will make it bootable.

Here is a disk utility screen shot:


aaronw1986
Apr 22, 2009, 06:57 PM
I have it formatted HFS+ and Apple Partition Map. It is a FireWire drive. I'm on PPC. Nothing I try will make it bootable.

Here is a disk utility screen shot:

Do you have an OS on it?
dmmcintyre3
Apr 22, 2009, 07:02 PM
The unreadable (to OSX) partitons are linux. I even tried putting the boot loader on the internal HD.