10.4.8 Combo Install on my Internal HD won't Boot!
I've posted before about one of my internal Hard Drives not booting. The Hard Drive works, and shows that it can be Booted thru System Preferences/Start up Drive , as well as thru the Install Disk, YET, will not actually Boot... it decides to boot on antoher smaller, older drive.
After a week of fighting with this issue, I finally got the Bigger, newer Hard Drive to Boot, after zeroing it out, and reinstalling OSX 4.0, and Migrating my back up FireWire (which will boot (10.4.7))
While using the less prefered smaller Start-Up Drive, I Downloaded the 10.4.8 Combo, and installed it onto the Internal HD that I would rather use. I'm assuming there is a good reason to upgrade to 10.4.8, which is why I wanted to upgrade this HD, YET it once again fails to boot!!
Any ideas???
find a way to update the "driver" for that OSX version on that hard drive. i'd start there first.
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Ubuntu installed fine, Arch did, but won't boot.
Hello, I am trying out Arch Linux alongside Ubuntu Linux on my external USB drive. Ubuntu boots fine, but after I install Arch, GRUB comes up giving me error 17. I don't know what could be different between my two installations except that I installed Arch while my internal HD was in, while I installed Ubuntu while it wasn't. Help?
I set Ubuntu's menu.lst back for now, but still can't boot to Arch. I think I figured out why I can't (the install messes up when using GRUB, as GRUB can't figure out what file system it is on). Also, I think I may need to take out my internal HD to install it to the external (I had to do that with Ubuntu, but I was told it was just in case). Anyway, here is my menu.lst for my working Ubuntu (where the Arch Linux entry doesn't work because it says that that one is not supported by my BIOS for some odd reason), and the one for arch.
Ubuntu:
# menu.lst - See: grub(8), info grub, update-grub(8)
# grub-install(8), grub-floppy(8),
# grub-md5-crypt, /usr/share/doc/grub
# and /usr/share/doc/grub-doc/.
## default num
# Set the default entry to the entry number NUM. Numbering starts from 0, and
# the entry number 0 is the default if the command is not used.
# You can specify 'saved' instead of a number. In this case, the default entry
# is the entry saved with the command 'savedefault'.
# WARNING: If you are using dmraid do not use 'savedefault' or your
# array will desync and will not let you boot your system.
default 0
## timeout sec
# Set a timeout, in SEC seconds, before automatically booting the default entry
# (normally the first entry defined).
timeout 5
## hiddenmenu
# Hides the menu by default (press ESC to see the menu)
hiddenmenu
# Pretty colours
#color cyan/blue white/blue
## password ['--md5'] passwd
# If used in the first section of a menu file, disable all interactive editing
# control (menu entry editor and command-line) and entries protected by the
# command 'lock'
# e.g. password topsecret
## password --md5 $1$gLhU0/$aW78kHK1QfV3P2b2znUoe/
# password topsecret
# examples
# title Windows 95/98/NT/2000
# root (hd0,0)
# makeactive
# chainloader +1
# title Linux
# root (hd0,1)
# kernel /vmlinuz root=/dev/hda2 ro
# Put static boot stanzas before and/or after AUTOMAGIC KERNEL LIST
### BEGIN AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST
## lines between the AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST markers will be modified
## by the debian update-grub script except for the default options below
## DO NOT UNCOMMENT THEM, Just edit them to your needs
## ## Start Default Options ##
## default kernel options
## default kernel options for automagic boot options
## If you want special options for specific kernels use kopt_x_y_z
## where x.y.z is kernel version. Minor versions can be omitted.
## e.g. kopt=root=/dev/hda1 ro
## kopt_2_6_8=root=/dev/hdc1 ro
## kopt_2_6_8_2_686=root=/dev/hdc2 ro
# kopt=root=UUID=d76897f5-a728-4f06-b3d6-7291b03100fe ro vga=791 splash
## Setup crashdump menu entries
## e.g. crashdump=1
# crashdump=0
## default grub root device
## e.g. groot=(hd0,0)
# groot=(hd0,0)
## should update-grub create alternative automagic boot options
## e.g. alternative=true
## alternative=false
# alternative=true
## should update-grub lock alternative automagic boot options
## e.g. lockalternative=true
## lockalternative=false
# lockalternative=false
## additional options to use with the default boot option, but not with the
## alternatives
## e.g. defoptions=vga=791 resume=/dev/hda5
# defoptions=quiet splash
## should update-grub lock old automagic boot options
## e.g. lockold=false
## lockold=true
# lockold=false
## Xen hypervisor options to use with the default Xen boot option
# xenhopt=
## Xen Linux kernel options to use with the default Xen boot option
# xenkopt=console=tty0
## altoption boot targets option
## multiple altoptions lines are allowed
## e.g. altoptions=(extra menu suffix) extra boot options
## altoptions=(recovery) single
# altoptions=(recovery mode) single
## controls how many kernels should be put into the menu.lst
## only counts the first occurence of a kernel, not the
## alternative kernel options
## e.g. howmany=all
## howmany=7
# howmany=all
## should update-grub create memtest86 boot option
## e.g. memtest86=true
## memtest86=false
# memtest86=true
## should update-grub adjust the value of the default booted system
## can be true or false
# updatedefaultentry=false
## should update-grub add savedefault to the default options
## can be true or false
# savedefault=false
## ## End Default Options ##
title Ubuntu 7.10, kernel 2.6.22-14-generic
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.22-14-generic root=UUID=d76897f5-a728-4f06-b3d6-7291b03100fe ro vga=791 splash quiet splash
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.22-14-generic
quiet
title Ubuntu 7.10, kernel 2.6.22-14-generic (recovery mode)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.22-14-generic root=UUID=d76897f5-a728-4f06-b3d6-7291b03100fe ro vga=791 splash single
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.22-14-generic
title Ubuntu 7.10, kernel 2.6.22-13-generic
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.22-13-generic root=UUID=d76897f5-a728-4f06-b3d6-7291b03100fe ro vga=791 splash quiet splash
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.22-13-generic
quiet
title Ubuntu 7.10, kernel 2.6.22-13-generic (recovery mode)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.22-13-generic root=UUID=d76897f5-a728-4f06-b3d6-7291b03100fe ro vga=791 splash single
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.22-13-generic
title Ubuntu 7.10, kernel 2.6.22-12-generic
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.22-12-generic root=UUID=d76897f5-a728-4f06-b3d6-7291b03100fe ro vga=791 splash quiet splash
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.22-12-generic
quiet
title Ubuntu 7.10, kernel 2.6.22-12-generic (recovery mode)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.22-12-generic root=UUID=d76897f5-a728-4f06-b3d6-7291b03100fe ro vga=791 splash single
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.22-12-generic
title Ubuntu 7.10, kernel 2.6.22-10-generic
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.22-10-generic root=UUID=d76897f5-a728-4f06-b3d6-7291b03100fe ro vga=791 splash quiet splash
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.22-10-generic
quiet
title Ubuntu 7.10, kernel 2.6.22-10-generic (recovery mode)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.22-10-generic root=UUID=d76897f5-a728-4f06-b3d6-7291b03100fe ro vga=791 splash single
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.22-10-generic
title Ubuntu 7.10, memtest86+
root (hd0,0)
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quiet
### END DEBIAN AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST
title Arch Linux
root /dev/sdb3
chainloader +1
Arch:
# Config file for GRUB - The GNU GRand Unified Bootloader
# /boot/grub/menu.lst
# DEVICE NAME CONVERSIONS
# Linux Grub
# /dev/fd0 (fd0)
# /dev/hda (hd0)
# /dev/hdb2 (hd1,1)
# /dev/hda3 (hd0,2)
# FRAMEBUFFER RESOLUTION SETTINGS
# +-------------------------------------------------+
# | 640x480 800x600 1024x768 1280x1024
# ----+--------------------------------------------
# 256 | 0x301=769 0x303=771 0x305=773 0x307=775
# 32K | 0x310=784 0x313=787 0x316=790 0x319=793
# 64K | 0x311=785 0x314=788 0x317=791 0x31A=794
# 16M | 0x312=786 0x315=789 0x318=792 0x31B=795
# +-------------------------------------------------+
# general configuration:
timeout 5
default 0
color light-blue/black light-cyan/blue
# boot sections follow
# each is implicitly numbered from 0 in the order of appearance below
# TIP: If you want a 1024x768 framebuffer, add "vga=773" to your kernel line.
# (0) Arch Linux
title Arch Linux
root (hd1,2)
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initrd /boot/kernel26.img
# (1) Arch Linux
title Arch Linux Fallback
root (hd1,2)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz26 root=/dev/sdb3 ro
initrd /boot/kernel26-fallback.img
# (1) Windows
title Ubuntu Linux 7.10
rootnoverify (hd1,0)
makeactive
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I got a message under my original Firefox telling me to update. I followed instructions and downloaded new files for Firefox 5. Download was successful. When I followed Wizard to set up, I am told to close Firefox 4 which stopped working. When I click on old icon nothing happens so I am stuck using Internet explorer which I hate. I have tried multiple times to install 5 and always end up in the close old version of firefox before you install 5 loop. Running Windows 7 Home edition
My situation is a similar 4 - 5.0.1 upgrade in my laptop XP home SP3. But the day started out with my FF link not working because the program (and most of its components) had vanished from Program Files\Mozilla Firefox. Maybe as a by-product of the previous session having ended with a forced low-battery shutdown? Then I installed FF4.0 (that was the latest setup I had, although I thought I had been on 5) and it immediately advised the upgrade. (My tabs and add-ons appeared normal.) When the upgrade finished it required a reboot to finish the upgrade. And that began the loop of requiring the reboot to finish the prior upgrade.
I tried removing FF with XP's Add/Remove Programs but that also prompts for the pending reboot instead of starting the removal. -
Problem installing windows 8.1 64bit, won´t boot
Hello there good people.
Let me first tell you that I am really novice with computers so please bear with me.
Z87-G45 Gaming motherboard
i7-4770k CPU
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Crucial DDR3 BallistiX Sport 1600MHz 8GB RAM
MSI GeForce GTX 780 Gaming 3GB PhysX
Speedplus+ Superwritemaster CD/DVD
So I tried to install Windows 8.1 from DVD. BIOS recognize both my DVD and SDD and I have changed the boot priority, AHCI mode but still when I reboot I get the message "Reboot and Select proper Boot device or Insert Boot Media in selected Boot device and press a key"
I have changed Sata cables and tried different SATA ports in the motherboard with no luck.
Have you guys any suggestions?
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I have found that if trying to install in win 8 mode, you often need to transfer the install files to a usb stick. Then boot from that. -
Macbook Pro internal HDD won't boot, but if i use it by usb works perfect
Hi people I have this computer with the following problem: The computer will not start if I left the hard drive internally, but the same hard drive boot the OS if I connect it by USB. I did the tests to verify the hard drive, but testing the hard drive they works perfect. I thought it was the hard drive connector, but the computer recognizes it but will not let me do anything to this hard drive. This hard drive is formatted in journals file system that everything works fine when connected by usb and boot the operating system but does nothing when connected internally only appear but you can't make any changes in the hard drive. When start the machine with this hard drive internally I get the error foulder with the question mark. The machine does the same thing if a connect a new hard drive. Anyone have any idea what can happen to this machine?
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Macbook Pro internal HDD won't boot the OS, but if i use it by usb works perfect
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If the drive is working properly outside the system but not inside the system then you have a bad piece of hardware inside the system.
If the drive does not work properly inside or outside the system then the drive has failed and will need to be replaced.
Need more info on your last post.
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[SOLVED] Installed Win 7, now Arch won't boot
Edit: To save anyone reading this all the way, the problem turned out to be a badly edited fstab. Sigh.
PROBLEM:
Grub loads, then loads the kernel, but the boot hangs a few seconds later with no real error messages.
BACKGROUND:
1) I needed to boot a native Windows 7 partition on my 128GB laptop SSD.
2) So, I used gparted in an Ubuntu Live USB to resize my existing Arch partition and create an NTFS partition for Win 7:
sda > sda1=Arch > sda2=ntfs > sda3=linux swap
Arch still booted fine after this (sda1).
3) I then installed windows 7 (BIOS install) onto the second partition (sda2). I don't know where or if it puts some system reserved partition - but I can't see anything in gparted.
4) chrooted from an Arch Live USB, reinstalled GRUB, including mkconfig step
5) *If* I recall, Arch then booted OK.
6) Booted into Windows and applied all updates, set windows to use UTC clock and updated my laptops BIOS. Reboot.
7) Win 7 boots fine from the grub menu from (hd0,2)
8) Arch starts booting, loads the kernel, then hangs after the kernel has loaded, but before gdm appears. With the following on screen:
[2.104597] INFO @wl_cfg80211_attach : Registered CFG80211 phy
I have tried chrooting and reinstalling linux and linux-headers and grub. But so far to no avail.
[SOLVED with face palm]
I installed syslinux using chroot, as it displays more startup messages. The boot was hanging at [a disk task is starting] or words to that effect. It was my USB stick, which I'd foolishly added to fstab with the "auto" option. Editing that out of fstab - and it's all good.
I'll leave this here in case anyone else does something this dumb.
Last edited by sultanoswing (2013-10-30 08:09:03)fettouhi wrote:
Thanks for the clarification about the DAEMONS list. My DAEMONS list is:
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The unit files have no [Install] section. They are not meant to be enabled using systemctl.
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My harddrive is a momentus XT seagate and I heard that those are compatible with Macs. One solution I heard is that I need to get a disk of OSX Lion (by downloading it onto someone else's computer and then removing the installer file), but that seems kinda tricky considering I don't know anyone's macbook that I can do that with. Are there any other options? Am I missing something? Please help!
-JoshCan`t you put the other drive in and then burn a Lion Installation disk?
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PowerMac won't boot after power failure during install
Hi, sorry if this has been asked. I searched, but I'm not quite sure how to phrase it.
I bought a used PowerMac from craigslist and went to install a newer version of OSX. I had a power failure in the middle of the install and now the computer won't boot up. How do I go back to a fresh re-install and get the computer to boot up?
Much appreciated!Did you use a retail install DVD? If you used a gray disc from another model Mac, that could be a problem.
Because of the power failure, suggest you reset the PMU. How long was the power Off? You may need to replace the PRAM battery.
Resetting Cuda/PMU on Power Mac G5, Power Mac G4, Power Macintosh G3
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=86760
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iMac, Model Identifier iMac12,1 with 121.5" screen, 2.8 GHz Intel Core i7 processor, 8 GB 1333 MHz DDR3 memory, 1 TB internal hard drive, running Snow Leopard 10.6.8 from internal drive.
I want to install Yosemite onto a 1 TB external hard drive (OWC) , and keep Snow Leopard installed on the internal hard drive. I want to be able to boot from either system, depending upon circumstance (at least until Yosemite is stable). Is this possible?It is possible. I'll let you read some articles that cover the setup:
Starting from an external USB storage device (Intel-based Macs) - Apple Support
or
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Can I install a new internal HDD and reboot from time machine?
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Allan Eckert wrote:
The only time the system on the DVD matters, is when you install from the DVD.
One exception: If you do a full system restore from a Snow Leopard backup using a Leopard Install disk, your Mac either won't start up or will kernel panic. See #E8 in Time Machine - Troubleshooting. -
Can I install my old internal hard drive into my new G5?
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I've just purchased a new computer:
Apple Mac Pro CTO
2GB (4 x 512MB) Two 3GHz Dual-Core Intel Xeon
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NVIDIA GeForce 7300 GT 256MB (single e-link DVI/dual-link DVI)
My old computer is a PMG4, Dual 1Ghz, 1GBRam, 80G HD. I installed a secondary internal drive; a Maxtor 250G 7L250RO, 16MB ATA (MXT-6B250RO)
I've filled up about 100G on the Maxtor and was wondering if I can install this HD into one of the empty bays of my new computer? Space is not necessarily the issue, rather I would love to be able to put all I need on the Maxtor from the old computer and just pop it into my new Mac.
Can this internal be installed into my new Mac?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance.He means buy a FireWire 400/800 drive enclosure that will take your drive and let you use it. It is almost impossible (for me) to fit a PATA drive in the 2nd optical drive bay of the Mac Pro.
I would invest in some more drive(s) for the Mac Pro though. I firmly believe in having two backup sets minimum. And to have a backup of the system as well as a "safe" emergency boot drive as well.
In order to boot from a drive on Mac Pro, it must be formatted or reformatted with GUID partition scheme (Disk Utility: Partition and at the bottom, click on "Options" to make the selection. So you may want to boot from backup/clone at some point to repair your main drive.
You can begin to find FW cases at OWC (www.macsales.com) and other places like Amazon, FWDepot etc. -
I want to install a new internal hard drive for my Macbook (13in, Late 2009) and restore to factory settings. However, I want to keep my Mac OS X Snow Leopard., which I downloaded from the app store. How can I restore computer with the updated OS?
What I did on our two computers was partition the hard drive so that both Snow Leopard and Mountain Lion can be used on the computers. This allowed me to be able to retain/use older applications and games on the Snow Leopard partition. This will allow you to do a clean install of Mountain Lion on the newly created partition. The Mountain Lion installer has a button that allows you to select another drive so you don't install it over Snow Leopard. I cleverly name one partition Snow Leopard and the other one Mountain Lion so I wouldn't confuse the two (I never claimed to be smart).
To partition, you need to have sufficient free hard drive space (I suggest 50 GB minimum). Boot off the Snow Leopard DVD or the disks that came with the computer and use Disk Utility to partition your hard drive into two partitions. If you plan to make Mountain Lion your primary OS, then you can reduce the size of the Snow Leopard partition so most of the free hard drive space is available for Mountain Lion. While booted off the disk, you can install Snow Leopard on the partition you want it on.
Restart and download Mountain Lion, remembering to select the correct partition before installing. I would make a copy of the installer and move it out of the Applications folder because the installer self destructs.
After getting all that sorted out, I found that while booted in Mountain Lion I could access the Snow Leopard partition. That allowed me to drag files and applications from Snow Leopard to Mountain Lion. Applications that won't work with Mountain Lion will be grayed out with a slash through them. -
Installing a 5th internal hard drive
What is the simplest way to install a 5th internal hard drive in a first generation Mac Pro? Is it a bad idea or does it work well? I don't want my Mac to get too hot etc.
If it is not practical I will do it another way.Use something like this:
http://www.transintl.com/store/category.cfm?category=2790. -
I have an early 2008 Mac Pro and want to install a 3TB internal hard drive. Is this compatible? The manual indicates 1 TB per bay, but I have already installed two 2 TB hard drives in two other bays, and have had no problems. Any suggestions?
RE: SATA Bus speed:
Typical Rotating drives available today, whatever their SATA spec, can source data off the spinning platters no faster than about 125MBytes/sec.
SATA 3 is rated at 6G bits/sec, which theoretically is about 750 Mega Bytes/sec
SATA 2 is rated at 3G bits/sec, which is theoretically about 375 Mega Bytes/sec
SATA 1 is rated at 1.5G bits/sec, which is theoretically about 187.5 Meg Bytes/sec
None of the SATA Busses is a bottleneck for consumer Rotating drives you can buy today. Trying to speed up the SATA Bus will not provide any real-world performance increases for Rotating Drives.
https://discussions.apple.com/message/22690384
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