I work at a university supporting computer classrooms. It's imaging time. I'd love to Netboot to image computers, but there might be a subnet problem preventing me from doing so. Nevermind that, I figure the next best thing is to boot off a Restore partition and then maybe we can image some drives over the network using DeployStudio or Casper or something.
So I created a Restore partition of Mac OS 10.6 (we're not on Lion yet) for our MacPros (Intel based). Last year we were using BootCamp, but have decided not to use Windows XP in that room anymore. But when we were using BootCamp we used this handy Unix ARD command to tell the computers to boot up in Windows at a specific time:
/usr/sbin/bless --device /dev/disk0s3 --setBoot --legacy --nextonly
shutdown -r now
This worked like a charm, as long as the disk part was right. No problem.
I've put my Restore image on the drives, but there seems to be some weird problem with it. First of all, the Restore partition doesn't auto mount. I can mount it using Disk Utilities, but it needs an administrator password to mount.
Second, I found the disk number for the Restore partition (disk2s3) and tried this:
/usr/sbin/bless --device /dev/disk2s3 --setBoot --legacy --nextonly
shutdown -r now
This causes the computer to shut down, but then it doesn't start up, and says there is no bootable disk image! (Press any key to continue.)
My Restore drive is totally bootable. If you restart the computer holding option, "Restore 1" shows up.
So I created a Restore partition of Mac OS 10.6 (we're not on Lion yet) for our MacPros (Intel based). Last year we were using BootCamp, but have decided not to use Windows XP in that room anymore. But when we were using BootCamp we used this handy Unix ARD command to tell the computers to boot up in Windows at a specific time:
/usr/sbin/bless --device /dev/disk0s3 --setBoot --legacy --nextonly
shutdown -r now
This worked like a charm, as long as the disk part was right. No problem.
I've put my Restore image on the drives, but there seems to be some weird problem with it. First of all, the Restore partition doesn't auto mount. I can mount it using Disk Utilities, but it needs an administrator password to mount.
Second, I found the disk number for the Restore partition (disk2s3) and tried this:
/usr/sbin/bless --device /dev/disk2s3 --setBoot --legacy --nextonly
shutdown -r now
This causes the computer to shut down, but then it doesn't start up, and says there is no bootable disk image! (Press any key to continue.)
My Restore drive is totally bootable. If you restart the computer holding option, "Restore 1" shows up.