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Other World Computing has details a process that lets you boot your Intel and PPC macs from the same external hard drive. The article is titled "Booting your Intel Mac to an APM-formatted drive ." "In the days of the PowerPC chips (PPC). Mac-formatted drives used a formatting scheme called Apple Partition Map (APM) to format its hard drives. Open Firmware (OF) would recognize this volume type, and be able to boot to it. With the new Intel Machines, Apple scrapped the Open Firmware approach and went with Intel's Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI) to match the new chip. Along with EFI, there came a new partition scheme, the GUID Partition Table (GPT)." |
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