On Jun 15, 2010, at 12:15 PM, Ashley Aitken wrote:
But I don't see how 10.6.4 may NO resolve the problem - I'm pretty
sure it would be a more recent kernel build, machine profiles, kexts
- as you alluded to.
How could 10.6.4 NOT resolve this?
I think (and I know I'll be corrected if wrong) that what Dan is
alluding to is that not every release of Mac OS X is a bootable,
installable, DVD released event. For example, 10.6 was bootable - you
could buy it on release day, boot the DVD, and install it on ANY Mac
that supports Snow Leopard as of the date of the release. That did not
include, of course, later Macs such as the i7 Macs. 10.6.3 was another
bootable release, enough had changed that there is a bootable 10.6.3
disc that supports newer systems than 10.6 did.
The NEWEST machines are seemingly in between these bootable releases.
So yours came with a special build on OS X that supports it, but
there's no SL DVD you can buy or find other than the one that
specifically came with the system.
So while you can install from that SL DVD and then do system updates,
and then migrate your user directories over, you cannot install the
system it came with, and then overlay with your pre-existing system
files from an older system - they will overwrite things that supported
your hardware with things that didn't.
The 10.6.XXX updaters won't do that, since they are designed with your
machines in mind, but your cloning process was not.
On that note, I'm back to trying to pre-order an iPhone.
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