Zenning a Macbook Pro

So far we’ve discovered that cloning a Zen image v(ia ZenWorks imaging 7) to a Intel Mac is really easy…if you don’t want to be able to multi-boot or ever repartition the drive from within OS X. (via BootCamp)
Infact, we’ve come across another error message that doesn’t sound good:

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Yeah, that’s right. Removed the Windows partition after a failed zen imaging and cannot recreate a windows partiton. Originally I had a 15GB partition for Windows, that I tried to overwrite with a zen image. When that didn’t work I deceided to delete the 15GB partition and start again, this time with a 20GB partition. That’s when I recieved the above error. If I went and dropped the partition size back to 15GB, BootCamp would run with out errors. Apparently the 5GB difference contained immovalbe files. But where?

On the onmac.net wiki there is an entry regarding triple booting. The author notes that he recieved a HAL.dll error upon rebooting. We recieved the following error when trying to restore our zen image.

Additionally, it’s of interest that in order to get the Public Beta 2 of Windows Vista running on an intel Mac you need to delete the 200mb EFI partiton.  I am puzzled as to how the computer continues to function after deleting the partition.

We’re getting closer.

Bookmark Clearinghouse

I keep my bookmarks organized in a fairly neat manner. Things that I come across that I believe are worth keeping are kept in folders with names such as Apple, Reference, Geek Tools, etc. My inbox as it were is a folder called ToDo. Which is actually a bit of a misnomer, as there’s nothing really I need to do with them…Until now! I’m gonna share them with you. Normally this sort of content is reserved for pay-sites or some sort of complicated registration process filled with free magazine offers. Not today! Here’s the list of current links I have in my ToDo folder, in no particular order.

Oblivion Tweak Guide
Mollie Sterling-Oakleaf’s Blog
Wiseacre’s Flickr
Banning Laptops in Academia?
Websitess As Graphs
Kittens Like FrontRow
MarvelDatabase
NASA-Droids on the ISS
Macworld’s review of the Macbook
Followup remarks from above Macbook article
Multi-Boot OS for Ipods
Delorean + Mac Mini
FFXII English Trailer
Photograph of Earth…From Mars
Sin:Emergence Review
Timkuktu and Skype for remote troubleshooting
k10k.net
Xyle scope, a live CSS editor
Startup key-combo’s for Intel Macs

Parental Force

As a parent it’s important to think about the future of your children. As I’ve grown older I realize more how important first impressions are. It’s important to make a bold and distinctive mark upon people during that first meeting. As such I’ve decided to purchase this for Kari.

Lasting impression will it leave.

Awesomely Bad Error

Check out this error a co-worker of mine discovered while trying to dual-boot his MacBook Pro.

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In a nutshell we tried to edit the partitions after running the Boot Camp Assistant. The problem arose when we started to use the Zen imaging utility (SUSe based) to partition a chunk of the Windows partition. This error is telling us that we fubared something really good and now need to reinstall the whole OS.