Hi Just for the records. I've talked to a true mac addict, and he told me it shouldn't do any harm (of course he didn't tell me that whithout muttering something about gnu/linux and dual booting.. ;) ).
> Hi > > The subject sounds rather ot, but I guess normal apple users wouldn't > be able to answer this, since they are not dualbooting. > > Well, I've downloaded the MacOS X Combo update via the system update > tool, and afterwards, you are requested to reboot. To this day, I got > it right. But today, I managed to forget to press Alt, and after > clicking reboot it booted right into debian.. (I'm a good manager, > no?) > > Ok, so far what was going on. Now the question: is the reboot needed > to do some postinstall work whilst start up, or is it just the old > joke, well, you've installed something, please reboot, otherwise it > won't get loaded? Because, e.g. for a firmware update, you have to > reboot since the updating process actually happens during the restart > phase (or slightly after). > > So, has it been a mistake to not reboot into MacOS X, i.e. there is > some temporary setting which triggers some special operations during > the first reboot after an update, or is it just there that the newly > installed stuff gets loaded, and it doesn't matter if you reboot into > debian first.. > > I wouldn't be concernced normally, but the Combo update also fixed > some security issues, and I am quite about security! > -- Best wishes, Andi
