[DC LoCo] Natty not booting on MacBookPro

jerry w jerrywone at gmail.com
Tue Apr 19 11:23:08 UTC 2011


sorry ATI is on this PowerBook G4
I'm not sure what's on the MacBookPro,
it's not booting far enough for me to check
and doesn't have stickers, etc...


On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 7:21 AM, jerry w <jerrywone at gmail.com> wrote:
> INLINE
>
> On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 6:48 AM, Daniel Chen <seven.steps at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 12:53 PM, jerry w <jerrywone at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> We haven't had a kernel update in a while...
>>>>
>>> maybe kernel modules or some dependency???
>>
>> Improbable. Do you have NVidia graphics?
>>
> NO ATI
> but thinking that the machine was compiling dkms
> or similar for the special mac hardware BTUSB, etc
> I had gone to the ubuntu sites and found special
> sauce for the MacBookPro 7,1 (iirc)
>
>>> fink on 10.4 powerpc did NOT find zsync
>>> so I can't get the tool to fix my machine
>>> which has my data and other stuff on it,
>>> do I have to wait for a final Natty to get a working
>>> machine and REINSTALL?
>>
>> No, you could always just download the iso, burn it to a disc, and
>> boot from there.
>>
> Still looking for a rescue type iso that doesn't use zsync
> knows about the current Natty and works on my special hardware
> and doesn't kill MacOSX...
>
> Redux (sp?) does not support PowerPC
> though looks interesting as gets out of dependency
> hell with static linking...
>
>> -Dan
>>
> Thanks again
>
> and what's up with the desert?
>
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