Hello folks
just wondering if someone could help me out with this topic. Had a few questions in regards to understanding what is going on plus my own requirement.
I have a macbook pro A1260 and I just fried the machine by plugging in a fake USB expander.
this machine was running YOSEMITE and is an "approved" yosemite machine.
I have a MACMINI which is the A1176 which I have upgraded with core2 duo 7200 CPU and also 4GB of RAM.
in essence this is 1,1 upgraded to a 2,1 (note) I havent done any flashing on it. but it boots fine with the new CPU ram etc running an old version of OSX.
If I take the YOSEMITE drive and load it up onto another MAC as a secondary drive and EDIT the PLIST file will this suffice in terms of allowing the MAC MINI to boot?
to add to this the A1260 NEVER is used on the internet so of course I have no requirement for MAC updates etc that could potentially wipe the modded PLIST file. If i can update the mac mini to yosemite i also have no need for it to go online.
this whole process I get confused with the relevant patches etc as it would seem a lot of the patches is a process to PATCH the yosemite install to work on the NON YOSEMITE machine. Plus also to effectively stop it from re patching itself with apple updates etc re modding the PLIST to make the machine non usable again.
this is great but it seems like quite a complex process and riddled with potential mistakes and problems.
but i also see a lot of youtube stuff where by people are modding Xserves etc to work by just installing YOSEMITE on an "allowed" yosemite machine then modding the PLIST file then just hoofing the drive across the to "non allowed" yosemite machine.
as most of us on this kind of level have a pile of machines around this method seems relatively simple.
but my main question is have I understood the process correctly for this "ghetto" method to work OR are all the EFI updates, patches etc still required.
hope this makes sense its quite difficult to explain.
thanks