So does the 2011 Mini boot Snow Leopard?

[sporadicMotion]

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This kind of issue reminds me of a hackintosh system. Often you run into silly little issues like this.

 

[Minicube]

Sounds about right, silly, but annoying. I need Snow Lep./Rosetta, so my Mini will be returned unless I can solve this.

 

[sporadicMotion]

Sounds about right, silly, but annoying. I need Snow Lep./Rosetta, so my Mini will be returned unless I can solve this.

What app do you need Rosetta for?

 

[Minicube]

Golive CS2. I maintain a couple sites built with it. Adobe never came up with a decent (i.e., non VERY labor-intensive) way to export these sites to Dreamweaver. I'm stuck with Golive/Snow Leopard for at least a couple of years yet.

 

[Minicube]

As a final test, I did a block level copy from my 2009 Mini with SL 10.6.8, and the 2011 mini definitely boots SL and appears stable. But there are 3 issues:

1. The cursor appears in various guises (non-spinning beach ball, etc.), but is usable

2. The mini HD video connection doesn't work (black screen)

3. It doesn't wake from sleep.

Unless you are very desperate, you won't put up with these issues.

 

[OLDCODGER]

As a final test, I did a block level copy from my 2009 Mini with SL 10.6.8, and the 2011 mini definitely boots SL and appears stable. But there are 3 issues:

1. The cursor appears in various guises (non-spinning beach ball, etc.), but is usable

2. The mini HD video connection doesn't work (black screen)

3. It doesn't wake from sleep.

Unless you are very desperate, you won't put up with these issues.

Have you tried a reinstall of the generic 10.6.8 combo update, followed by permission repairs? This should fix at least points two and three, i think.

 

[alexreich]

Could be a kexts issue.

Nope, I was using a USB mouse connected to the keyboard. The strange thing is that the cursor appears normal some of the time, and always functions like a cursor should, just with a strange appearance. It's so close...

I see. You may not have the correct kext files in Library (due to the new hardware on a old OS. Opposite of the Hackintoshing days ). If you're having USB mouse issues, is anything else connected via USB acting up?

If you have any Bluetooth keyboard/mouse related issues, try taking some kexts off of your Lion installer and installing them into Snow Leopard. Any issues with bluetooth would make sense because the new MacBook Air and Mac Mini have newer revision of Bluetooth technologies (revision 4 I believe, I read about it on release day. It's on either cultofmac.com or 9to5Mac.com) than previous models. Just download Lion from the Mac Apps Store for free (note you can only download Lion while running Snow Leopard), and look inside the installer package for bluetooth related .kext files.

Anyways, I'm pretty sure that there are USB mouse kexts you need to grab off of the Lion distro to get everything working right in Snow Leopard.

Warning: Messing with kexts may affect file permissions and cause issues with OS, possibly causing the need of reinstallation of OS. BACK UP YOUR SYSTEM BEFORE MODIFYING THESE THINGS.

If you need help installing the kexts, you can get KextHelper b7 which will install the kexts for you. The only time you'd have to really spend is finding the kexts within Lion.

This is just a shot in the dark, but it could work. It all depends if the kexts are backwards-compatible. I assume they are because surely the 2011 Mac Mini went into testing phase before Lion betas.

 

[Minicube]

Thanks, but I gave up and returned the Mini. I'm going to get a 2009 Mini or a MBP early 2011; something that is meant to boot SL.

 

[pixilla]

As a final test, I did a block level copy from my 2009 Mini with SL 10.6.8, and the 2011 mini definitely boots SL and appears stable. But there are 3 issues:

1. The cursor appears in various guises (non-spinning beach ball, etc.), but is usable

2. The mini HD video connection doesn't work (black screen)

3. It doesn't wake from sleep.

Unless you are very desperate, you won't put up with these issues.

Same issues here. I will try the suggestions as I am desperate to run rosetta dependent business app.