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Subject: Re: Booting FreeBSD/powerpc from external FireWire drive?
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On Oct 5, 2010, at 1:00 PM, Paul Mather wrote:

> I am presuming this is because the
> partitions don't look sufficiently "OS
> X"-like.

But what does the startup disk sysprefs app di? With a Windows boot camp par=
tition it takes a little bit for it to show up but once it's selected it bec=
omes the default until changed -- presumably by settings in Open Firmware.

-Gary
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