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Authored by: hschickel on Sep 13, '02 11:22:52AM

An OSX install is hardware agnostic. If you're noticing oddities associated with booting originally from a powerbook (especially energysaver or ethernet issues) do the following:

Fire up the terminal.
sudo rm -r var/db/SystemConfiguration
Then restart the machine from the Apple menu.

This will allow your machine to reset its power management prefs.

Hugh



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Authored by: macjohnmcc on Sep 13, '02 05:22:51PM

This is a slick trick that I read about in the latest issue of Mac Addict.

I do have ask though why you don't replace the CD_ROM drive? :)



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Authored by: macman13 on Sep 13, '02 10:41:17PM

Just have not gotten around to it yet. Any idea what the price is for a slot loading cd-rw drive is? I'll have to research this, just have not had the time to get to it and I was impatient to install 10.2 on my "Blue Dalmation".

Thanks.
SA



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Authored by: tliet on May 29, '03 02:19:34PM

Actually, sudo rm -r /var/db/SystemConfiguration is a bad idea. It removes the whole directory and this confuses OS X a lot. Try tossing one of the files inside the directory to clear things up.

sudo su

cd /var/db/SystemConfiguration

Then rm either the com.apple.PowerManagement.xml file, or the preferences.xml or the com.apple.nat.xml file.



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