Alright…
Long story short.
I’ve got an original MacBook (white) with a broken CD/DVD drive, and I want to install Snow Leopard on Friday when it comes out.
I plan on buying a copy, but first I want to make sure I can upgrade somehow.
A co-worker of mine has a new uni-body MacBook, so I decided I should try putting my HDD into his MacBook and booting it today, just to make sure it goes without a hitch, and that way I could use his DVD drive to install the upgrade to Snow Leopard…
Well, here’s what happened when we tried booting.
Also note, there’s no Apple logo when it boots with this HDD?!?
The first time we tried it, it was stuck at “waiting for root device” and a reboot fixed it though, and it did the following.
Shutdown is weird too, also shown in the video.
James Kaczynski II on August 24th, 2009 at 4:22 PM says:
Don’t you already have one? I want one.
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Corey DeGrandchamp Reply:
August 25th, 2009 at 7:23 AM
@James Kaczynski II,
Yeah but my CD drive is broken on it, so I need a way to upgrade to the new OS.
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Bjørnar Kibsgaard from Apple MacBook Pro And More on August 25th, 2009 at 2:43 AM says:
Hi,
Maybe it is some kind of driver issue between the white MacBook and the Aluminum one? I think you should try a fresh install instead
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Corey DeGrandchamp Reply:
August 25th, 2009 at 7:24 AM
@Bjørnar Kibsgaard from Apple MacBook Pro And More,
I think it is a driver issue, but there’s no way I can do a fresh install, the DVD drive on the white MacBook is broken, and that’s the one that I use… the Aluminum is a co-workers.
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Bjornar Kibsgaar from Apple MacBook Pro and More on August 25th, 2009 at 9:51 AM says:
Take the installation DVD and make an image of it on a working Mac.
Then take a USB stick with enough space on it and format it to HFS, and make sure to format it as GUID.
Use disk utilities restore mode to restore the DVD image to the USB stick. Insert the USB stick into your white MacBook and boot from it.
Now you can re-install on your Mac
I did this myself on my girlfriends Mac, hers optical drive doesnt work as well.
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Corey DeGrandchamp Reply:
August 25th, 2009 at 9:58 AM
@Bjornar Kibsgaar from Apple MacBook Pro and More,
now THAT sounds like a plan…
I’ll perhaps try it out to be sure with an original leopard DVD tomorrow or something.
And do the real deal on Frirday.
It’s really that simple?
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Corey DeGrandchamp Reply:
August 31st, 2009 at 10:18 AM
@Corey DeGrandchamp,
So far so good on this… I made the DMG file on a friends macbook, and we restored it to my thumb drive, and ran it off that, and so far so good.
Thanks man!
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