Thanks Scott. I follow what you are saying and understand how my MBP is in between bootable releases.
However, I believe Dan was claiming that 10.6.4 (an official minor release) may not be bootable on all Macs released (and supported - to exclude older Macs). That sounded somewhat strange to me. Is there precedence for this? My plan for now is to wait for 10.6.4 (hopefully soon) then update my old MBP and clone again to the new MBP. I assume this will work? Cheers, Ashley. PS Good luck with your iPhone pre-order ... On 16/06/2010, at 12:21 AM, Scott G. Lewis wrote: > 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. _______________________________________________ MacOSX-admin mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-admin
