On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 8:31 AM, Ashley Aitken <[email protected]> wrote: > > In the past, when I move to a new MAc I just copy the drive partitions from > the old machine to the new machine. It has mostly worked fine.
As you've discovered, that's not always the best idea. > This time moving from a MBP (late 2007?) to a new i7 MBP I did the same but > the new machine would boot past loading Extensions.mkext. > > Old MBP was running latest OS (SL 10.6.3). I tried deleting the kext cache > directory etc. I also reset System Controller and PRAM - no help. . > > Any idea why this my be so? > > Only thing I can think of is a) i7 was running later build of SL and I should > have waited for 10.6.4, or b) Little Snitch kext causing problem. The issue is likely "a". Usually, when new hardware is released, it requires its own build of the OS. If you want to install an OS on it, your need to use the OS that came with it, or a later release. Releases of the OS that predate your Mac will likely not work. -- Clark S. Cox III [email protected] _______________________________________________ MacOSX-admin mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-admin
