Now that the Cr-48 has taken the spotlight, I'd like to share my story of how my laptop.One day, during a car trip to Florida, my Dell Mini
10v refused to boot my beloved Mac OS and would prevent me from opening any program on the laptop in a Finder error. I tried everything, reaching out to MyDellMini with no success. I've tried every forum's help I have looked for without luck. After retreating to an Ubuntu USB disk, I took all my files off my laptop onto my backup drive. Then I went ahead with a full format of my laptop, taking around 5 days before giving me a drive error (Bad Sectors.)After trying 2 USB Drives, 5 Cham Boot Drives, 3 Snow and Leopard Images and attemps to write the images on Linux, Mac 10.3.9 and Windows, the install would appear similar to this:
Cham or syslinux boots the usb (with -v -x -f)
After 20 or so seconds I get a message saying:
"Bios read error: error 0x04
Block xxxxxxx: sectors 64"
(I have gotten the install to work a few times but it always failed after 10 or so minutes.)
And yet none of those gave me any resolution. To make it all better, and thank god I did this before zeroing the HD, my backup failed on me. So another few days was spent recovering, thankfully, all my files off the disk before inevitably zeroing the HD.
Now that the Hype of Chrome OS has begun, I have put it on my Mini JUST in case Google sends me one for the rigorous testing I would provide. However, wifi does not naively work and even the IMG from dell doesnt work after following the commands provided.
I hope whoever reads this will at least get some humor out of this story, I know I didn't.
P.S.: Ever since my Mini doesnt have Mac OS, the battery life has cut more then half. Just shows how much Dells like Apple and that we should all get along (Without Windows)
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