If you are booting a Linux system via iSCSI (using Broadcomm or Intel iSCSI-bootable Ethernet), certain information specific to your system is embedded in the Linux configuration during the OS installation. If you then clone that LUN and try to boot it with another system, all hell breaks loose. The system starts to boot and… Read More »
My wife and I went down to catch brunch at Banger’s on Rainey Street in Austin today. If you haven’t been to Rainey street in general, or Banger’s in particular, you gotta check it out. This place is great. They serve a Sunday brunch menu, along with their normal selection of excellent sausages. Today, they… Read More »
A while back, I posted on how you could monitor your Intel SSD under Mac OS X using smartmontools. With the addition of a new iMac to my home office, I again updated to the latest smartmontools (6.0 at the time of this post), but it didn’t have all the information about the Apple 128GB… Read More »
William Lam (@lamw)of VMware has figured out how to create an ISO image with the necessary tweaks to get ESXi 5.1 to install on the new Mac mini (model 6,2) over at his site, Virtually Ghetto. Check it out. Now, if anyone can help me to get ESXi 5.1 installed on my Late 2009 Mac… Read More »
I’ve been chatting with @garyorenstein on Twitter about his upgrade from the stock spinning rust HDD in his MacBook Pro, to an Intel 320 Series SSD. This is an upgrade that I’ve undertaken before. I started thinking about endurance. Commercial grade MLC SSD products have a bad reputation for early wear-out. I wanted to see… Read More »