Re: new 17" powerbook 1.67

On Tue, 15 Mar 2005, Finlay Dobbie wrote:

Who would I contact to get the current CVS source code for the
installation of the new 7.7 kernel in opendarwin?


> On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 14:28:53 -0600 (CST), Roger Midmore
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I just recently bought a new 17" powerbook 1.67 and want to install darwin
> > on a seperate partition, but the install fails to boot( the apple comes up
> > but then it just hangs). Has anyone heard of any problems like this
> > before?
>
> It's probably safe to assume that you can't boot OpenDarwin on
> hardware newer than the release you're trying to use (your PB probably
> comes with OS X 10.3.7 or 10.3.8 or so, OpenDarwin 7.2.1 is based on
> OS X 10.3.2, and 10.3.2 predates your PB and is undoubtedly lacking
> hardware support).
>
> You're SOL at least until the next release, I think.
>
>  -- Finlay
>