Bug#637284: Can't install wheezy on a 2011 iMac

[Mike Hore <mike_hore@aapt.net.au>]

Hi Jonathan,

> Mike Hore wrote:
>
> > it appears the live images are only for
> > Stable.
>
> Yeah, it seems so at the moment[1].
>
> > I would expect that the latest fixes would only be in Testing.  Is
> > this right?
>
> Nah, the network driver was updated in Stable[2].
>
> > (And you're right, I don't want to disrupt my working system,
> > and especially not to muck around with my partitions.)
>
> I don't blame you. :)

Well, I found I'd accidentally left myself an unused partition :-)
So I went ahead and did a regular install using the current weekly build 
netinst iso.

Unfortunately, the problem(s) is/are still there.  I got EXACTLY the 
behavior I reported above.  Scrambled video, so I did a rescue mode boot 
and installed the updated driver as I described in an earlier message. 
This let the boot proceed past this point, but it hung with the flashing 
text on the screen, just as I described earlier.

So sorry, it's not fixed.  I might give the live image a go when I get 
time, but in view of what's happened I'm not very hopeful.

But as I have a running system under VirtualBox, I'm happy as far as 
that goes.  I guess most users of new Macs would want to use OSX as well 
as Debian, and VirtualBox or one of the other virtualizers would 
definitely be the way to go.

Cheers,  Mike.

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          Mike Hore        mike_hore@aapt.net.au
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