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[Ricky Campbell <cyberdork33@xxxxxxxxx>]

Alex, I believe we talked via email.

Your bug is valid, and should be reported here, and even mentioned in
the wiki, but You make the consequences seem far more serious than they
really are. Let's work to find a fix for the problem rather than telling
everyone not to use a specific distribution. There are several people
with your hardware using Intrepid, and thus, I think this may only
effect a specific subset of all MacBookPro3,1 users.

I have added the bug against linux here.


** Also affects: linux via
   http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11811
   Importance: Unknown
       Status: Unknown

** Changed in: mactel-support
   Importance: Undecided => Medium

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Intrepid MacBook Pro 3,1 "Santa Rosa" LiveCD Disaster
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/327849
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Support, which is the registrant for Mactel Support.

Status in The Linux Kernel: Unknown
Status in Mactel Support: New
Status in Ubuntu: New

Bug description:
Please amend the wiki; this release is absolutely inappropriate for installation from LiveCD on a Macbook Pro 3,1 Santa Rosa.

Loved Hardy for some months. Upgrade from Hardy seemed reasonably stable. Formatted hard drive and decided to go dual-boot with Mac OS 10.5.x (previously single-booting Hardy) and encountered innumerable errors during install. Crashed upon reboot. Hundreds of lines of errors scrolled by.

Previously attempted this over a month ago and tried again today with a freshly downloaded and burned LiveCD -- same effect.

Please, PLEASE amend the wiki or otherwise warn owners of this particular MacBook Pro model against attempting install off LiveCD. I have found it all terribly misleading.