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Well it was really just a fancy external drive. It's more because of macOS happily booting from any kind of external device that makes this happen.
by GekkePrutser 5y ago
Well it was really just a fancy external drive. It's more because of macOS happily booting from any kind of external device that makes this happen.
- kitsunesoba 5y agoThat’s true, I remember being a bit confused when I found that Windows was extremely picky about what it booted from, with weird hacks being required to boot a Win2K or XP installer from anything other than an optical disc. Both OS 9 and OS X were pretty lax about that.
- GekkePrutser 5y agoYeah I booted from USB HDD for a while in the XP days but it was necessary to edit the registry to make sure all USB related drivers would load at an earlier stage during boot. And installing any updates would usually revert this, leading to an unbootable system :/ Not sure if this still works like that but it was a total PITA.
- kccqzy 5y agoA friend of mine even booted from an SD card.
- JadeNB 5y agoThat must have been slooooow.