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[Alex Karpenko <alexkarpenko@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello Alex,

The bug you have referred us to has been fixed. It seems to me that the
issue is specific to your setup. If you would like your bug to be
resolved, please provide additional information so that the problem can
be identified. It would be useful to know at which point the
installation fails, what errors (if any) are printed, how you partition
your drive, which boot manager you use (and anything else that you deem
would *actually* be useful to fixing your problem).

Please understand that it is unreasonable to expect the wiki to be
amended with: "this release is absolutely inappropriate for installation
from LiveCD on a Macbook Pro 3,1 Santa Rosa.", when you in fact seem to
be the only one who has made this claim so far.

Regards,
Alex K.

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Intrepid MacBook Pro 3,1 "Santa Rosa" LiveCD Disaster
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/327849
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Status in The Linux Kernel: Fix Released
Status in Mactel Support: New
Status in Ubuntu: Confirmed

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.