thanks for all the replies.
after booting them several times with holding down c or 'alt' key they
somehow booted after like 10 attempts or so. well that's the only thing
i can offer as a 'homebrew' solution, keep on rebooting the machines...
laters,
a.
Bernardo Barros wrote:
Maybe a problem with i7 chips and ubuntu 9?
2010/10/16 Dan S <[email protected]>:
We just tried on a mac here which is showing the same reluctance.
(Can't boot puredyne 9.11 dvd edition, just gives us a flashing cursor
and nothing more.) It's NOT a password-protected EFI, and resetting
the PRAM doesn't help. Low on ideas so far...
Dan
2010/10/14 Dan S <[email protected]>:
How are you trying to boot them? Are you holding the C button down
Those systems look very similar to me too.
The EFI on one of them may have password-protection enabled, which
according to this article prevents boot from cd/dvd by holding C:
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1352
That page also suggests how you can check/alter whether it is
password-protected.
You could also try resetting the PRAM on the mac which doesn't want to
boot it. Not particularly likely to help but it's easy to do.
Dan
2010/10/14 #! /usr/bin/adnan <[email protected]>:
heya,
tried to install pure:dyne on some intel macs & weirdly some of the macs
won't boot the cd/dvd & some boot, thought they have the same hardware specs
as far as i'm aware of, or i could not find the difference. any ideas why?
ta,
adnan
mac not booting:
Hardware Overview:
Model Name: iMac
Model Identifier: iMac8,1
Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo
Processor Speed: 2.66 GHz
Number Of Processors: 1
Total Number Of Cores: 2
L2 Cache: 6 MB
Memory: 2 GB
Bus Speed: 1.07 GHz
Boot ROM Version: IM81.00C1.B00
SMC Version (system): 1.29f1
Serial Number (system): VM827MTYZE6
Hardware UUID: AB7310CC-6131-57AC-A946-FD0CAB3B37E2
& mac booting:
Hardware Overview:
Model Name: iMac
Model Identifier: iMac8,1
Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo
Processor Speed: 2.66 GHz
Number Of Processors: 1
Total Number Of Cores: 2
L2 Cache: 6 MB
Memory: 2 GB
Bus Speed: 1.07 GHz
Boot ROM Version: IM81.00C1.B00
SMC Version (system): 1.29f1
Serial Number (system): VM827KBQZE6
Hardware UUID: DCCADD2D-4212-568A-9780-61CF6F20582F
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