Drives that go 'poof' in the night
While revving up a new MacBook Pro and pondering how to get a persistent bootloader, I inadvertently did something dumb: I disconnected a Firewire drive from my laptop while it was at the EFI boot screen. As sometimes is the case, dumbness led to knowledge -- I had never seen the drive 'poof' effect on the startup chooser screen, and I have to say I was pleased at the little 'slide' as the remaining drives shifted over to take up the space. Nice fit and finish there.
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12-12-2006 @ 10:22AM
Thomas Malley said...
This is the small attention to detail, that makes apple what it is.
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12-12-2006 @ 10:35AM
Julian said...
You can do the same thing by ejecting a bootable cd from this screen, for instance, the tiger install disc.
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12-12-2006 @ 10:43AM
Bryan said...
It gives the same effect when you erase something on the Newton. :)
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12-12-2006 @ 11:35AM
Ben Babics said...
It's the same effect you get when *poof* another TUAW reader stops coming after reading stupid post after stupid post.
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12-12-2006 @ 12:01PM
Keith Duncan said...
I noticed that a while ago, it also works if you add bootable media whilst on that screen.
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12-12-2006 @ 12:52PM
michel said...
thanks for that discovery. I didn't know that. nice details
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12-12-2006 @ 1:55PM
Riine said...
Echo @ #1
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12-12-2006 @ 2:14PM
313 said...
i agree with #4.... what kind of idiot takes the time to record that??
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12-12-2006 @ 3:15PM
thomas said...
that was neat.
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12-12-2006 @ 8:05PM
Phil said...
Does someone have a copy of the image? I'm just getting the 'X' image-not-found...
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12-12-2006 @ 8:29PM
Michael Rose said...
Hi Phil --
The direct YouTube link is http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFZZuRVodpc
if you are having trouble seeing the video.
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12-13-2006 @ 7:56AM
Daniel said...
Nice detail.
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