My computer is flying on Debian even though I would like to replace the main distro with a minimal one that I can configure the hell out from the ground up. Parrot is a little too buggy with a macbook this old and the ker.log is consistently listing:
"CPUs have inconsistent MTRR settings probably your BIOS does not setup all CPUs"
Besides resolving the BIOS issue my problem is this: I want to do the 8GB RAM upgrade made available in the 2.8 EFI firmware update released by Apple 2012-02-28.
When I was running OSX El Capitan I had the correct Boot ROM version for the upgrade: MBP51.007E.B06
But now the kernel is recognizing the original base install specs including:
- SMBIOS 2.4 presen