MBR partition table (instead of GPT) on Intel Mac okay for SD?

[pmocek]

Originally Posted by dnanian

It's almost like you're running on a non-Apple computer. Possible?

Well, depending on how you define "non-Apple" it's beyond possible -- it's a fact. As I said before: this is not a stock machine. I have changed the partition table from GPT to MBR in order to more effectively boot multiple operating systems. GPT is fairly new, and many other operating systems don't yet handle it properly. It's a better system, in my opinion, but I'll stick with the old one if doing so will make OS X to play nicely with GNU/Linux and others.

Is Superduper restricted to use with machines using GPT partition tables when running on OS X on Intel hardware?

Truth be told, I have had trouble getting the cloned partition set as a startup disk. But I would think that if Superduper cannot do so, Shirt Pocket would prefer it to recognize this and then issue a warning, refuse to run until the option to set as startup disk is disabled, etc., instead of running all the way through the backup then failing with a cryptic error message. The latter is definitely not consistent with Superduper's otherwise excellent UI.

So, any clues? I realize this is a corner-case for now, but I'm confident that with time you'll find yourselves with more customers running OS X on newer hardware, and more of us Unix geeks jumping on the bandwagon, pushing the boundaries of OS X and Superduper in the process.