Downtown Doug Brown
a day ago
- A second Performa 550 hard drive with an intact recovery partition was discovered, confirming the partition was not a fluke and providing more data for analysis.
- The recovery partition's files were identical across two drives, except for different creation/modification dates, suggesting it was factory-created rather than user-generated.
- Evidence points to the partition being added by Apple at the factory, not by Apple Backup, as a script likely ran during testing to create it.
- The Dinosaur Safari CD bug causing recovery mode was traced to an unauthorized InitResources() call, which re-initializes system resources and triggers the partition.
- Patching the Dinosaur Safari CD to skip InitResources() prevented the recovery mode error, supporting the explanation.