Hi! yes, the Mac firmware performs a self-diagnostic power-on test at boot up which briefly checks the hardware and so-forth. Macs with less than 2GB of RAM running Lion refuse to boot, but this isn't important if it boots with the required hardware.
Regards, Nic On Sep 25, 2011, at 11:03 PM, Mrs. Lynnette Annabel Smith wrote: > Hello John > > I don't doubt you, I was just querying it because according to Apple Lion > won't run with less than 2GB of RAM. Gordon is hypothesising that that check > may be done only at boot time. Very interesting actually. > > Lynne > > On 25 Sep 2011, at 21:52, John Gunn wrote: > > Well I've been using 3GB ever since I've been using Fusion. > > <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> > > To reply to this post, please address your message to > mac-access@mac-access.net > > You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at > either the list's own dedicated web archive: > <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> > or at the public Mail Archive: > <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/>. > Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: > <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml> > > The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and > worm-free! > > Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting > the list website at: > <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/> <--- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net ---> To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net You can find an archive of all messages posted to the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html> or at the public Mail Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/>. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: <http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml> The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free! Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting the list website at: <http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/>
