Re: not playing nicely
James Moss wrote:
>
> On Monday, 30 July 2001, at 11:22:58 (-0700), chamster wrote:
> > Have you been able to boot off this CD on other Macs, preferably a similar
> > model?
> >
> Oddly enough, I was able to boot this very machine several times and install
> debian, etc... but then I got a new hard drive. The Hard drive is fine,
> I've installed debian on it, so I know it can be done. Ever since I updated
> OSX from the "update Software" System Preferece, it hasn't worked. I'm
> completely baffled. On a side note, LinuxPPC still works (just tested it to
> see if it would work). I tend to want to put the blame on the kernel that
> is distributed with potato (since that's the boot disks I'm using). Are
> there newer boot disks available? Something perhaps with a 2.4.x kernel on
> it?
That's funny, it worked until you did something dangerous like
"update software" in apple land, but you blame it on the linux
kernel?? This list is littered with posts from people that had
trouble with this sort of thing after letting osx near their hard
disk.
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