arenared Posted October 13, 2005 Share Posted October 13, 2005 Since OSX can be installed to a flash drive, external drive, and the Ipod can be used as one. Is it possible to boot from an ipod into OSX86 with your pc? I had to ponder this question out loud. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/3475-ipod-booting-osx86/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
7654321 Posted October 13, 2005 Share Posted October 13, 2005 I'm not sure, I think you could. Because one time I was reinstalling Windows XP and I was charging my sister's iPod via firewire. XP asked me to install it onto a 152GB partition or 15gb partition. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/3475-ipod-booting-osx86/#findComment-21984 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bilditup1 Posted October 13, 2005 Share Posted October 13, 2005 I tried this, it wouldn't work with my P7000D laptop, i kept getting kernel panics and complaints about the usb ports. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/3475-ipod-booting-osx86/#findComment-22081 Share on other sites More sharing options...
7654321 Posted October 14, 2005 Share Posted October 14, 2005 Does it have USB 2.0 or 1.1? I have 2.0, so... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/3475-ipod-booting-osx86/#findComment-22098 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Takuro Posted October 14, 2005 Share Posted October 14, 2005 ............................................ Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/3475-ipod-booting-osx86/#findComment-22101 Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeathChill Posted October 14, 2005 Share Posted October 14, 2005 OS X has been installed on an old black and white iPod after years of tinkering. It's a very dumbed-down OS X with code that went through lots of chopping. It's not worth it. It requires tons of scrolling, runs extremely slow, and typing stinks. As far as I know, only 10.1 has been successfully installed on an iPod. What they mean is partitioning the iPod harddrive and installing OS X x86 on the partition and booting off of the iPod. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/3475-ipod-booting-osx86/#findComment-22103 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sudar Posted October 14, 2005 Share Posted October 14, 2005 What they mean is partitioning the iPod harddrive and installing OS X x86 on the partition and booting off of the iPod. Genuine Apple Macs boot up from iPod in case it is connected to a Mac thru FireWire (IEEE1394). In the meantime, with PC it is possible to start it up from USB 2.0 external HD witn Windoze. I do also wonder what is going to happen in case you install x86 on a USB-iPod and try to boot PC up with Mac OS x86... ) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/3475-ipod-booting-osx86/#findComment-22136 Share on other sites More sharing options...
foxale08 Posted October 14, 2005 Share Posted October 14, 2005 I dont know about mac but I bet you could install windows on it depending on if you can boot from usb on you motherboard, I know I have the option in my bios..... So feasably could you not install it to a pc motherboard with that option... it would be dificult to get the x86 version working because of all the patches and stuff but I bet it could be done.... you just heve to make the ipod go into disk mode before it tries to boot the next thing in the list.. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/3475-ipod-booting-osx86/#findComment-22250 Share on other sites More sharing options...
kazuyuki Posted October 16, 2005 Share Posted October 16, 2005 I have installed the boot manager - system commander before, sometime when I plugged My IPOD 3g, there two item appeared in the boot menu.So, I think with using it, we can boot it from IPOD. BTW, I used use 2.0 to connect Ipod, My laptop is ECS G551, a notepad Bought in 2 years before. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/3475-ipod-booting-osx86/#findComment-22431 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sudar Posted October 17, 2005 Share Posted October 17, 2005 Since OSX can be installed to a flash drive, external drive, and the Ipod can be used as one. Is it possible to boot from an ipod into OSX86 with your pc? I had to ponder this question out loud. By the way, why not simply try it? ) When my iPod (4-th gen, Click Wheel) comes back from service I'm gonna clarify this subject. And I shall post the results in any case.. Stay tuned! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/3475-ipod-booting-osx86/#findComment-22622 Share on other sites More sharing options...
arenared Posted October 17, 2005 Author Share Posted October 17, 2005 By the way, why not simply try it? ) When my iPod (4-th gen, Click Wheel) comes back from service I'm gonna clarify this subject. And I shall post the results in any case.. Stay tuned! because i dont have an ipod. but i am thinking of getting the new ipod video. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/3475-ipod-booting-osx86/#findComment-22627 Share on other sites More sharing options...
jman Posted October 18, 2005 Share Posted October 18, 2005 No way am I doing that with my nano. I love my little buddy. (AND NO The SCREEN ISNT BROKEN!!! THAT ONLY AFFECTS 1/10th of 1% of ALL of them made) GEEEEZ! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/3475-ipod-booting-osx86/#findComment-22758 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Centurion Posted October 19, 2005 Share Posted October 19, 2005 No way am I doing that with my nano. I love my little buddy. (AND NO The SCREEN ISNT BROKEN!!! THAT ONLY AFFECTS 1/10th of 1% of ALL of them made) GEEEEZ! ...It wouldn't fit anyway... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/3475-ipod-booting-osx86/#findComment-23111 Share on other sites More sharing options...
colorfuel Posted October 19, 2005 Share Posted October 19, 2005 Apparently installing Oses on an Ipod and booting/working from them could reduce the lifetime of it's Hdd. As it's heavily strained in the process and produces alot of heat. And since the Ipod Hdd is not cooled at all this is a very bad idea unless you want fried Ipod for the fun of booting from it. doing this can and will use your iPod in a way it was not intended and may severely shorten the life of your iPod. The reason is that the little iPod hard drive wasn’t meant to be a full-time operating system drive. It’s okay to boot from it from time to time, but the little drives are rated to about 20,000 hours while desktop drives are usually rated to 750,000 hours or more. But, even with that said— the biggest reason thus will eventually kill your iPod is—the heat that will be generated inside the iPod from this much use isn’t what the iPod was designed for, so at some point you can and will fry your iPod. http://www.engadget.com/entry/8817137592535661/ Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/3475-ipod-booting-osx86/#findComment-23118 Share on other sites More sharing options...
xerid Posted October 26, 2005 Share Posted October 26, 2005 By the way, why not simply try it? ) When my iPod (4-th gen, Click Wheel) comes back from service I'm gonna clarify this subject. And I shall post the results in any case.. Stay tuned! and the results? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/3475-ipod-booting-osx86/#findComment-24457 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sudar Posted October 26, 2005 Share Posted October 26, 2005 and the results? It is possible! But only in case your iPod HDD is formatted HFS+ (that is "Software Restore" has been done on a Mac). Unfortunately I cannot post screenshots here for I threw my iPod into the river. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/3475-ipod-booting-osx86/#findComment-24459 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derrick Goodfriend Posted October 28, 2005 Share Posted October 28, 2005 It should be possible because I remember reading about someone installing Linux on an iPod. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/3475-ipod-booting-osx86/#findComment-24813 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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