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![I visited my parents this weekend and their 10 year old iMac would not boot anymore (white screen of death + dead HDD. ) I plugged an external HDD and installed Ubuntu I visited my parents this weekend and their 10 year old iMac would not boot anymore (white screen of death + dead HDD. ) I plugged an external HDD and installed Ubuntu](https://preview.redd.it/6ezfb01xky451.jpg?auto=webp&s=ca9f91530c4d464780ee31591ef75c1b76e399cc)
I visited my parents this weekend and their 10 year old iMac would not boot anymore (white screen of death + dead HDD. ) I plugged an external HDD and installed Ubuntu
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