At 8:22 AM -0700 6/13/04, Dennis B. Swaney wrote:
Aaron, just remember to partition the new hard drive so that the first partition is 8 GB or less. That is where the OS must be installed on those iMac models.
The "first 8 Gig" limitation applies to the placement of OS X. Earlier OSs can reside anywhere.
That is NOT what I read years ago BEFORE OS X came out. A lot of people had problems when they put in larger drives. It worked ok at first because the drive was blank so when they installed Mac OS, it went into the first 8 GB. Later, after installing lots of programs, they would do a clean install (to fix a problem or upgrade to a new system version) and the iMacs would not boot from the new system because it was outside the area where the ROM/firmware expected to find it. The problem was supposedly fixed with the release of the "Rev E".
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Sincerely,
Dennis B. Swaney
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