I again chose MacOSX UNIVERSAL as the startup volume, and found that the PowerPC iMac booted just fine. After a few seconds, I got a screen where I could choose which system to boot from.
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Is it possible? Yes it is!Īfter I read this very interesting article from Andrew Mortenson, wherein he describes how he succeeded in creating a bootable Universal binary Mac OS X System with Radmind, I figured that there could maybe be an easier way to accomplish this.īased on the assumption that all the important system parts are already Universal binary, and that the Intel 10.4.5 System is only missing some hardware-specific files for the PowerPC platform, one could maybe clone OS X Intel on top of OS X PowerPC. Now we only need a way to combine the two systems into one. This can be done such that you can actually boot from both partitions, as shown by Jonathan Rentzsch and by this hint posted here previously. I then copied a G5 iMac's OS X 10.4.5 System onto the MacOSX PPC partition, and an Intel Mac's OS X 10.4.5 System onto its appropriate MacOSX INTEL partition. I started by reformatting an external FireWire drive on an iMac G5, and created four partitions on it: My goal was to try to create a Universal binary Mac OS X System in an easy way, so other System Administrators or interested people can also recreate it. Apple is probably releasing a Universal binary Mac OS X 10.5, but can we wait? No! Ideal would be an OS X system which is Universal, and therefore able to boot both Intel and PowerPC Macs.
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Without a Universal binary, Mac OS X 10.4 System Administrators like myself must effectively double their responsibilities and maintain two operating systems, one for each platform.