Geekiness galore: Same startup behavior on 10.6.1

Testing using the same steps on 10.6.1 yields the same result as discussed in my 9/4/09 post (including the fact that the workaround to boot from 10.5.8 functions correctly).

Just riffin' here, but could the fact that Rosetta isn't installed by default in Snow Leopard have anything to do with the legacy QuickDraw imaging that the Hardware Diagnostic uses? Probably not, as QuickDraw is a legacy OS9 technology (originally designed for 680x0 & PowerPC chips, though a ROM or firmware kludge obviously makes it run on Intel for the Hardware Diagnostic, at least when booting from a 10.5.x volume), whereas Rosetta is a run-time PowerPC to Intel interpreter. But just a thought.

In any event, I haven't tested by installing Rosetta (no need to have extra code on the HD or in RAM/using processor cycles when I have no other PowerPC apps I really need to run). But if anyone would like to test with Rosetta, I'd love to hear the result.

So Apple didn't address no Hardware Diagnostic in 10.6.1. Maybe in 10.6.2?