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    Need to boot from network drive.

    Discussion in 'Apple and Mac OS X' started by mike-d, Sep 20, 2009.

  1. mike-d

    mike-d Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hello.

    I have an Airport Extreme linked to an external hard disk. The HD is formatted in GUID partition scheme and it's split into 3 partitions.

    One of the partitions is a Macintosh HD partition with Snow Leopard on it. I can boot into Snow Leopard when the external HD is plugged via USB to my MBP.

    But when I plug it into the Airport Extreme, I couldn't find a way to boot from it. Do you know a way? Please help :(
     
    mike-d, Sep 20, 2009
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    doh123 Without ME its just AWESO

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    boot off a drive over the network? your ambitious.... not sure if the EFI in your machine supports and the airport card support a network boot.
     
    doh123, Sep 20, 2009
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    mike-d Notebook Enthusiast

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    Bummer... Can anyone confirm? I think it says Network Startup in "Startup Disk" in System Pref...
     
    mike-d, Sep 20, 2009
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