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used with macOS, hardware flaws are easier to diagnose. The same can be

said with macOS and application problems. macOS has a more homogeneous

ecosystem (that is, not a lot of variety) than Windows. Aside from upgrading

RAM, most macOS machines get few hardware updates and thus dodge

problems that dog Windows machines. Likewise, Apple provides a lot of

excellent productivity software with the basic macOS system, so most users

have little incentive to add much additional software. This avoids problems

too.

Linux production machines—generally servers—often lack the excess

complexity of Windows or macOS systems and just work solidly. When you

switch to the enthusiast or dabbler systems that most of us use, on the other

hand, they have all kinds of problems. That’s because the most common of

those systems use random spare parts from old Windows machines. You get

what you pay for, I suppose.

The chapter intertwines the common problems in the operating systems

with the tools and common solutions listed in 1002 objectives 1.5, 1.6, and

3.1. Let’s dive into troubleshooting now.

1002

Failure to Boot

When a computer fails to boot, you need to determine whether the problem

relates to hardware or software. You’ll recall from Chapter 9, “Implementing

Mass Storage,” that drives need proper connectivity and power, and that

CMOS must be configured correctly. If not, you’ll get an error like the one in

Figure 16-1. We’ll look more closely at these sorts of scenarios in the first

part of this section as a refresher.

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