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Re:A disk so full, it couldn't be restored by p_l on Thursday April 04, 2024 @05:25AM (#39928207)
The firmware is based on iPhone boot process from my understanding, and simply does not have space in ROM to implement boot from external storage.

The rest of the code necessary to boot from external sources is located on main flash

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Re:A disk so full, it couldn't be restored by amelius on Thursday April 04, 2024 @05:46AM (#39928326)
Yes, but the decision to use this firmware was made by Apple.

This is like saying my software did not work because it was based on an incompatible version of some library. Maybe so, but that is a bad excuse. Implementing systems is hard, and like the rest of us, Apple should not get away with bad excuses. And this is even more true because they control more of the stack.

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Re:A disk so full, it couldn't be restored by pjerem on Thursday April 04, 2024 @12:01PM (#39932129)
OTOH, the current implementation works and is sufficient so Apple could easily decide that it’s not worth modifying firmware that already works to solve an inexistant issue.
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Re:A disk so full, it couldn't be restored by amelius on Thursday April 04, 2024 @02:51PM (#39934371)
That's how you end up with a UX that works only for programmers (see e.g. Linux in the 90s).
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Re:A disk so full, it couldn't be restored by pjerem on Thursday April 04, 2024 @04:12PM (#39935254)
We are talking about booting from USB. On a Mac M2. That’s literally the most power user feature of a MacBook.

The 3 users of this feature on this planet are already happy that it’s even possible at all. The only thing Apple could do is to document this clearly like adding a text in the boot drive selector.

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