[Discussion] [MAC] ESC 2.0 Install

[Thomas Clayton]

Yeah, this _IS_ me-to-me BUT .. it's REALLY for 'the rest of you'.

I've finally been 'back into' my old computer (*), recently, and, today, was  using it to re-part'n the "BIG" backup USB drive. I popped open a saved webpage and found ref. to the EFI 'bios' I had been talking about in my previous letter. A little 'hunting' (in MY bookmarks) got me:

http://osxbook.com/book/bonus/chapter4/firmware/

where YOU can read about "EFI" as the replacement for "BIOS".

Thomas Clayton

*As you MAY recall ;-) 
The one where the hard drive died, suddenly and without warning (of course!), and I refrigerated it.
(I'll save the rest of the story for a later letter - since it's highly UNlikely that I'll make a 'Food SIG' to tell you in-person! :-(  )



--- On Thu, 6/3/10, Thomas Clayton <topcatdrc at yahoo.com> wrote:

> From: Thomas Clayton <topcatdrc at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: [Discussion] [MAC] ESC 2.0 Install
> To: "POSSI Discussion List" <discussion at lists.possi.org>
> Date: Thursday, June 3, 2010, 8:29 PM
> Don,
> 
> As far as I can judge, your problems are FAR worse than
> that. (Before I move on, LVM _will_ (ought to) make a MESS
> of your drive. So, DON'T try it!) 
> 
> The hardware is NOT IBM PC-PC compatible! So, it should NOT
> "go" at all!
> IF you try / use a "Virtual" means, believe it or not, eCS
> _should_ be workable (somehow, I think). Directly running on
> the _Mac_ design Hw, however, is a no-go.
> 
> ("Open Firmware" (in PPC Macs) had already "left" the PC
> BIOS behind. Now there is an ~EFM~ (on 'Intel Macs') and eCS
> doesn't know ANYTHING about how to communicate with it.)
> 
> Sincerely though, possibly incorrectly, 
> 
> Thomas Clayton
> 
> P.S.: AFAIK, Apple Computer, Inc. didn't go "far enough" to
> 'correct' 'design flaws' in the 'PC' "architecture". Even if
> they had, it wouldn't have mattered since they wouldn't -
> couldn't - have corrected the fundamental problem: the bad
> design withIN the Intel (and AMD) micro-Processors. I and, I
> _think_, 'our' Bill N. agree on this.
> T.C.
> 
> --- On Thu, 6/3/10, D Burch <theunk at telus.net>
> wrote:
> 
> > From: D Burch <theunk at telus.net>
> > Subject: [Discussion] [MAC] ESC 2.0 Install
> > To: "POSSI Discussion List" <discussion at lists.possi.org>
> > Date: Thursday, June 3, 2010, 4:12 PM
> > I have space on my Mac Mini HD to
> > install ECS2.0 GA. and run the machine dual boot for a
> bit.
> > Has anyone tried this?
> > If not, would anyone be able to speculate on the
> chances
> > that  LVM is going to raise hell with my OS X
> > partition?
> > 
> > 
> > Don