* [DONE] Re: [gentoo-user] OT: installing Gentoo on a 2007 Macbook
@ 2013-08-23 9:30 99% ` Marc Joliet
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From: Marc Joliet @ 2013-08-23 9:30 UTC (permalink / raw
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Well, I returned the laptop to the university. It turns out the person who
had it before me had the same problem of OS X not booting sometimes (with the
original disk, not the new SSD we installed when I got it). When I got the
laptop, I was in fact told that it "wouldn't start", but we understood that to
mean "wouldn't turn on". So when it *did* boot from the OS X live system we
supposed that it wasn't in fact completely broken.
Judging from the nature of the problems I would guess the firmware (EFI) is
"broken". Perhaps reflashing it would solve the problems, but the laptop is
old enough that the university will probably just buy a new one instead, what
with the battery being broken and all.
So thanks for the help, but the laptop in question is pretty much officially
finished.
Greetings
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Marc Joliet
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