Re: Help: Using an Apple IIGs Hard disk HFS partition for MAC SE30 BOOT disk?

[shack@onyx.southwind.net (Randy Shackelford)]

David Empson (dempson@actrix.gen.nz) wrote:

: It should work if done while the hard drive is connected to the same
: machine (the Mac Finder knows to copy the "blessedness" of the System
: Folder, which requires updating the boot sector), but I'd be surprised
: if it worked when copying over a network.

: (I discovered that this worked entirely by accident - I backed up my
: system folder onto a ZIP disk, then discovered I could boot from the
: ZIP!)

I've done the system folder copy from volume to volume trick a few times
but only between local volumes on the same box. I never tried over a
network and certainly not with a non Mac box.

: It should be easy enough to fix this: drag the Finder out of the
: non-blessed System Folder, then drag it back in again.  Finder should
: note the presence of both Finder and System, and will mark the folder
: with the blessed icon, indicating that it has done the required
: low-level updates.

Yep the bless it system trick is a good idea when you do the copy method.

: In any case, the primary problem (as others have mentioned) is the lack
: of a Macintosh driver, preventing the drive from being seen at all.
: This implies it is a third-party drive (not Apple badged), so ADU didn't
: put the Apple-only driver onto it.

I wasn't so sure that ADU always puts a usable APPLE_DRIVER partition on
every disk. When it started to matter, I started using Mac formatters.

: Using GenEx to create the GenericMacSCSI file _before_ partitioning the
: drive on the IIgs should do the trick, but trying to add the driver now
: without losing the disk contents is tricky.  I'd suggest backing up any
: data you want to keep and starting again.

If you're gonna back up, I'd recommend just using a Mac formatter and not have
to worry about getting it to work.
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