Doug, I'm no Mac user but I would throw caution to the wind when dual booting between and internal and external hard drive. Could cause problems with the MBR/active/boot partition being in the wrong location when the drive is removed etc.
I would suggest partitioning the internal hard drive and having that boot both OS's, and use the external as a Data drive or something. Cheers, Michael On Tue, 2009-02-10 at 10:32 +0000, doug livesey wrote: > Hi -- I tried last night to install Ubuntu on an external FW drive on > my Macbook. > It wouldn't reboot from the external drive, and managed to kill the > install on my main HD -- hopefully the drive itself is ok, but I'm not > sure (I can see it in the restore list). > I tried restoring from TimeMachine to my internal drive, but that > didn't work, so I ended up restoring OSX to the external drive, and am > currently booting from that. > What I'm hoping to do now, then, is to install Ubuntu on the internal > HD, as I want to use it as my main dev environment anyway, so that > could all have worked out in the end, if my internal HD is ok. > I thought, however, I'd ask the expert collective about any potential > gotchas before trying this -- there appear to be a few to ubuntu on a > mac that I was not previously aware of! ;) > Cheers, > Doug. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
