[pypy-dev] macos buildbot offline

[matt at vazor.com]

Boot from a usb installer image and you can clear the disk and install to it.

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Matt Billenstein
matt at vazor.com

> On Jul 8, 2020, at 2:18 PM, Yury V. Zaytsev <yury at shurup.com> wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 8 Jul 2020, Matt Billenstein wrote:
> 
>>> On Wed, Jul 08, 2020 at 11:12:45AM +0300, Matti Picus wrote:
>>> I think 8GB is fine. Tell me when you would like to give it a shot. I have no
>>> idea what version of macOS is the minimum needed. You can set it up following
>>> https://foss.heptapod.net/pypy/buildbot/-/blob/branch/default/README_BUILDSLAVE
>> 
>> Here's the script I use to bootstrap the worker - note a few requirements in
>> homebrew in the comments:
>> 
>> https://gist.github.com/mattbillenstein/944a1ce60e8522405ecd014f651fe21c
> 
> Oh man, mac life is hard... just bricked one mini, trying to erase the hard drive and reinstall the OS :-/
> 
> Apparently something went wrong during the erase, and now everything including El Capitan panics upon booting the installer, probably due to a kernel bug in com.apple.driver.CoreStorage, which leads to the meltdown due to this particular evil type of disk corruption.
> 
> I wonder which options do I have other than taking the thing apart and zeroeing the hard drive with Linux - just odered a Thunderbolt cable - maybe I could get to the drive using Target Disk mode and zero it without getting it out of the machine...
> 
> Gonna try my luck with another mini tomorrow.
> 
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> Sincerely yours,
> Yury V. Zaytsev