Gordo74 said:
I'll move my question here from the official update thread...
"How would one update to 10.6.6 and reboot into 10.6.6 to install this special 10.6.7 without using bridgehelper, therefore installing the legacy kernel?"
This is a very good question and no one seems to be able nor interested even to discuss it.
I was close just to give it a try - installing again from scratch, dragging RAM>4GB out, disconnecting unneeded HDs, go from 10.6.3 dvd via combo update 10.6.6 and sandy bridge update 10.6.7 without bridgehelper - but thinking about it for a while I am convinced right now that I would have failed.
Without having detailed technical background knowledge about what is included in the 10.6.7 update or what bridgehelper does I do have the impression that we will have to use bridgehelper until there is a system update available which addresses all different processors used by apple without the option to just update parts of the kernel which is already installed before and which is a specially branded SB kernel also.
This will not be the case until Apple is only
updating.
It must be an "update" that installs everything from scratch which would basically be a "new" installation.
In other words: As long as there is no new retail system dvd available which would allow to install a naked system irrespectively what kind of processor is in use, bridgehelper will still be required.
And this - in my opinion - will earliest be the case when Apple releases 10.7.0.