Comment 33 for bug 633983

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Crazor (crazor) wrote : Re: Can't boot Maverick beta amd64 live cd on macbook (EFI)

Though not directly concerning this bug, I'd like to ask if anyone experienced PRAM corruption or other strange problems while trying the desktop amd64 installer.

I was able to render my MacBook 5,1 unbootable two times yesterday when I tried the standard (non-"+mac") iso. Neither Snow Leopard would boot nor any Apple installation media I had at hand, nor Ubuntu 10.04. OS X told me it could not enumerate a USB device in some port (none were connected) and then hung up with "still waiting for root device".

After zapping the PRAM, all installations worked again, and I could also boot the Snow Leopard installer DVD. After fiddling around some more with the amd64 installer, the same state occured, after which I had to zap the PRAM again.

Has anybody seen something similar? If not then maybe I need to get my logic board checked or replaced, if this continues.

I'll try the "amd64+mac" installer now.