how did i end up with snow leopard 10.6.8 and darwin 10.8.0 on my macbook mid 2010 13init is a mess help

how did i end up with snow leopard 10.6.8 and darwin 10.8.0 on my macbook mid 2010 13init is a mess help

MacBook, Mac OS X (10.6.8), snow leopard server

Posted on Feb 12, 2018 3:02 PM

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Posted on Feb 15, 2018 11:52 AM

When you purchased your laptop it would have had Snow Leopard (the operating system) pre-installed. Darwin is the open-source unix operating system that "sits below/or underneath" Snow Leopard. Darwin is also pre-installed. Both have been put on your MacBook by Apple and there's absolutely nothing wrong with either of them.


Apple do this with all of the computers (laptops and desktops) they make. Does that answer your question?

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Feb 15, 2018 11:52 AM in response to KathyG001

When you purchased your laptop it would have had Snow Leopard (the operating system) pre-installed. Darwin is the open-source unix operating system that "sits below/or underneath" Snow Leopard. Darwin is also pre-installed. Both have been put on your MacBook by Apple and there's absolutely nothing wrong with either of them.


Apple do this with all of the computers (laptops and desktops) they make. Does that answer your question?

Feb 16, 2018 3:27 AM in response to KathyG001

It's clear you're unsure about the best way to get yourself back to a workable laptop. What you describe is something relatively straightforward to fix for someone who knows. Therefore my advice would be to take it to your nearest Apple Genius bar or Repair Centre and ask them to back-up any data that is pertinent and precious to you and then to wipe and reinstall from scratch. There will of course be a charge but, in my view, it will be worth it. Don't waste your time by asking me how much as it depends on where you are and don't waste any more time by continuing with what you have. Act as soon as and, hopefully your problems will disappear.

Feb 15, 2018 2:39 PM in response to KathyG001

Yes it clarifies that i was mistaken about what is causing the problem in the first place. Recently I attempted to do a clean install of the original operating system because of crashing and kernel panic after kernel panic. Also there where occasions when icloud would not recognize my apple id, that would resolve if i rebooted. when i erased the hard drive and tried to activate recovery it sent me to internet recovery and not the disk recovery partition. It sent me to Lion internet recovery and so I attempted to recover in Lion. I just would not work and would not give me an answer as to why just a try again later. So I tried the disk recovery again and in the middle of loading Snow Leopard from disk netboot swooped in and redirected my "clean install" to Snow Leopard Server Internet installation. I did not know what to think. My little macbook is not a server. It went well and everything seemed alright until I got a look at the disk set up in disk utility. This is kind of hard to explain so bare with me here. My install was attached as a small windows server volume on /dev/rdisk1s1 and the netboot installation recovered Snow Leopard Network Server to /dev/disk0s2 with a windows EFI. The why is that a major security event took place at some point when the original system migrated to my EXs imac and his migrated to my macbook. Now my little macbook is having a constant identity crisis and is constantly trying to migrate back to the exs imac that is no longer connected in any way. It has thrown a TMSafety net Quarantine in itself so that any attempt to completely erase it only erases part of it. now from the disk that my windows server is on will not allow me to do any thing with the quarantined system. At first it was not aware of me but after me meddling trying to fix it it has become aware. I had set the firevault to protect the disk and changed the associated password and it changed it to my exs forgotten one when it became aware of my little windows server. I have all the Superuser privileges in the world from here but they have no impacted on the quarantined part of the system. to make matters worse I had to create another apple id to get at updates and downloads and the quarantined system will only recognize the old one. So here we sit when every i log in the quarantined system kernel 7.9.9? has a straight melt down that has no effect on my login. I think that is because my installation is in a small VM. I just don't have the skills to figure this out. Shish!

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