a while back I was looking to make a system 7.6.1 boot disk for my 2400 in order to work on floppy disks created by old systems (1 thru 6) without deblessing them. In the end I decided I didn't need to, but in the process I was told the following:
At 2:04 PM -0500 3/2/03, Bill Brown wrote:
You speak of booting your 2400 to MacOS 7.6.1. I am confused. My 2400 came to me new out of the box with MacOS 8.0 installed. I have long since upgraded to MacOS 8.1. I've had no need to look at anything later. I am aware that the 2400 was introduced into the Asian market with MacOS 7.6.1 installed. All my literature and all information I have found for my North American 2400 is that MacOS 8.0 is the oldest it will run on. I have tried to install MacOS 7.6.1 on my 2400 to no avail; the installer said no way. I have tried booting my 2400 to an external drive with an all-flavor install of MacOS 7.6.1 also to no avail. I have understood that the issue is that only the earliest of 'book 2400s sold in the Asian market have boot ROMs that will recognize MacOS 7.6.1. The rest of the world received 'book 2400s with newer boot ROMs requiring MacOS 8.0 and newer. This may well be mytholgy. I do not know.
Now, according to Apple, the 2400 *does* run 7.6.1 (although my pb also came with system 8), so what's the deal?
Is there a hardware difference btw the original Japanese 2400's and the ones released in the US? Can the 2400 run on 7.6.1?
Does anyone know?
Nicole
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