Help. Pretty please?

[Alejandro Imass]

On Tue, Feb 16, 2016 at 9:26 PM, Tee Bee via freebsd-questions <
freebsd-questions at freebsd.org> wrote:

>  do y'all help people whose confusers are running on your stuff? I have an
> old Mac thats running Darwin Kernel version 10. 8 or something like that


This is actually somewhat off-topic on this list but OS X is in great part
FreeBSD so I'll try to point you in the right direction:

Darwin is the OS version. Given the version you specify is OS X and not Mac
OS which existed up to OS 9. Starting with OS X Apple started using a
version of NextStep which was in turn based on a FreeBSD template and the
Mach kernel.

See:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OS_X
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mach_%28kernel%29
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/project/mach/public/www/mach.html



> anyway. & I get stuck at the blue screen. I think its a permission issue
> in a folder I just don't know what folder or how to get to it. Im not a
> developer; a 53 year old house wife with a 10 year old Mac that I just want
> to have working again. Can you guys help me with your stuff and get it
> booting again?       Thank you in advance for your kind response.
>


You would need to provide exact model. Some architectures are no longer
supported. How do you know you have 10.8 on a 2006 Mac. Up to 2006 OS X
only ran on Power PC models of the Mac.

Maybe you can take a picture of the blue screen and post it somewhere and
provide a link to it here (please do not attach the picture),

Best,
Alex