Snow Leopard crashes if ML WDE drive connected

I have a couple of computers with Mountain Lion installed on an internal drive. I occassionally boot them in Snow Leopard using an external HD (to use a software program that is incompatibvle with Mountain Lion). But, if FileVault is on in Mountain Lion on the internal drive, I can not start up the computer using the external Snow Leopard drive. What seems to be happening is as Snow Leopard starts up, when it sees the internal drive and tries to read it, it crashes (gray screen with "You need to restart your computer" in several languages). Anyone else have this problem? Any ideas for a solution (besides turning FileVault off in the Mountain Lion install).
BTW: starting up Snow Leopard with the Mountain Lion drive removed works fine. Then attaching the Mountain Lion drive also works fine (it can't be read because it is encrypted using Mountain Lion, but at least it doesn't cause Snow Leopard to crash). The problem seem to be just when Snow Leopard is starting up.
Thanks.

That is a pretty major crash you are experiencing. It reads like a Kernel panic and this is often a result of faulty hardware or third party apps. I remember having a G4 Powerbook that would do the same whenever I tried to play a DVD. Turns out one of the memory slots was faulty and when the data was being buffered to play the movie this was causing the crash.
At this stage I suggest you try a different printer driver to the HP drivers you are using. With a bit of luck the HP will support PCL or Postscript, meaning that you will be able to create another print queue using the Generic PCL or Postscript drivers. If this allows you to print without the crash then you can concentrate on removing the HP software and looking for updated drivers or alternatives.
If the problem stays when the generic drivers are being used then you may have a hardware fault, such as RAM. If you can access the RAM in your Mac you could remove it, give the copper contacts a clean with an eraser (the pen erasers work the best but are harder to obtain than the pencil erasers) and add them back. If you have two RAM chips then you could look at only removing one to see if the problem continues.
Good luck.

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Interval Since Last Panic Report: 1030082 sec
Panics Since Last Report: 6
Anonymous UUID: 54E924C2-F1C4-4865-ACAA-FDA2AE4FEEE3
Sat Apr 24 20:01:29 2010
panic(cpu 1 caller 0x2a8ac2): Kernel trap at 0x00294506, type 14=page fault, registers:
CR0: 0x8001003b, CR2: 0x44225000, CR3: 0x00100000, CR4: 0x00000660
EAX: 0x44214199, EBX: 0xfffffff2, ECX: 0x3fffbc63, EDX: 0xfffffff2
CR2: 0x44225000, EBP: 0x585db3b8, ESI: 0x14b946fd, EDI: 0x44224ffd
EFL: 0x00010207, EIP: 0x00294506, CS: 0x00000008, DS: 0x00870010
Error code: 0x00000002
Backtrace (CPU 1), Frame : Return Address (4 potential args on stack)
0x585db148 : 0x21b449 (0x5ce420 0x585db17c 0x2238a5 0x0)
0x585db198 : 0x2a8ac2 (0x590478 0x294506 0xe 0x590642)
0x585db278 : 0x29e9a8 (0x585db290 0x0 0x585db3b8 0x294506)
0x585db288 : 0x294506 (0xe 0x585d0048 0x10 0x2b0010)
0x585db3b8 : 0x962412 (0x14b83800 0x1 0x5a0 0x4420a000)
0x585db818 : 0x963eca (0x1 0x14b83800 0x5a0 0x1)
0x585db888 : 0x960f8c (0x14b83800 0x5a0 0x1 0x4420a000)
0x585db8c8 : 0x95ee57 (0x14b83800 0x5a0 0x1 0x4420a000)
0x585db998 : 0x4c3730 (0x0 0xb2ee43c 0x0 0x585dba54)
0x585db9f8 : 0x4afe4d (0xb2ee43c 0x0 0x585dba54 0x0)
0x585dba48 : 0x34d10b (0xb2ee480 0x54335f00 0x1 0x337496)
0x585dba98 : 0x351190 (0x5441f600 0x34 0x1 0x6a00a8c0)
0x585dbc68 : 0x346d2c (0x5441f600 0x14 0x585dbc98 0x0)
0x585dbca8 : 0x3483cb (0x5441f600 0x14 0x6 0x0)
0x585dbdd8 : 0x3484f2 (0x5441f600 0x0 0x84ba40 0x847e40)
0x585dbdf8 : 0x32ecab (0x2 0x5441f600 0x585dbe78 0x22712a)
0x585dbe38 : 0x31b52a (0x2 0x5441f600 0x1 0x4b50db34)
0x585dbec8 : 0x3177a5 (0x85ffa04 0x2 0x5441f600 0x4f952b)
0x585dbef8 : 0x319f1d (0x87b7a4 0x8c027c8 0x54428800 0x585dbf4c)
0x585dbf68 : 0x31a18b (0x0 0x5441f600 0x0 0x8718d2c)
0x585dbfc8 : 0x29e6cc (0x8718d04 0x0 0x29e6db 0x80ce7a8)
Kernel Extensions in backtrace (with dependencies):
com.Cvnt.nke(2.0)@0x95d000->0x96cfff
BSD process name corresponding to current thread: kernel_task
Mac OS version:
10D573
Kernel version:
Darwin Kernel Version 10.3.0: Fri Feb 26 11:58:09 PST 2010; root:xnu-1504.3.12~1/RELEASE_I386
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System uptime in nanoseconds: 23966135820417
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I have a 2007 Macbook Pro that is running 10.7.5 and I am trying to use a 10.6.3 DVD to install Snow Leopard to an external hard drive.

I have a 2007 Macbook Pro that is running 10.7.5 and I am trying to use a 10.6.3 DVD to install Snow Leopard to an external hard drive. I've followed every possible instruction on every which website. The problem is when I boot to Install disc, I am unable to choose which hard drive I'd like to install the OS on. It says that it is unable to Install and automatically takes me to Restore and suggests that I restore to Time Machine backups. Any and all help is appreciated.

lovinlife5959,
have you tried booting from the grey Mac OS X Install DVD that originally came in the box with your MacBook Pro? See if you can install its version of Mac OS X (either 10.4.9, 10.4.10, or 10.5.0, depending upon when it shipped from the factory) onto your external hard drive. If that works, boot from your external hard drive, run Software Update on it, and then try updating your external drive to 10.6.3 via the white Snow Leopard DVD.

HT3777 I have a Window 7 HP laptop. I want to install Snow Leopard on an external hard drive as the memory space on my laptop is very less. I have the original snow leopard disc and I think it's a retail version . Please guide me through the installation.

I have a Window 7 HP laptop. I want to install Snow Leopard on an external hard drive as the memory space on my laptop is very less. I have the original snow leopard disc and I think it's a retail version . Please guide me through the installation in details. Can you also please let me know about this boot camp.

You cannot. From a legal standpoint, the license agreement for OS X mandates that you run OS X only on Apple hardware. HP is not (yet) owned by Apple.
From a technical standpoint, your HP laptop doesn't use EFI, but rather an early predecessor called a BIOS. Apple is the only vendor of consumer computer hardware that uses EFI; other vendors reserve EFI for use in servers.
Secondly, Apple's operating systems support a rather limited number of configurations of video hardware and mainboard chipsets directly since they need only support those systems that they manufacture. You cannot use Windows software or drivers on OS X, so prior to installation, you would need to write your own hardware drivers for your laptop, create an OS X drive image on a Mac, and then modify that image with your drivers before putting it in the HP.
It will be simpler (and legal), to simply purchase a used Mac. Apple's online store has refurbished MacBook Airs starting at $850 and Mac Minis for $700. If you go to e-bay or craigslist, you'll find used Macs for considerably less.

Can I install snow leopard on an external hard drive so I can run quicken 2006, and put snow leopard on my imac harddrive

Can I install snow leopard on an external hard drive in order to run my quicken 2006, and install lion on the hard drive of my imac?

You don't need to erase the drive and repartition from scratch. You may be able to add a second partition on the fly. The caveat here is that once you do that you cannot create a Windows partition using Boot Camp. Of course if you have no plans for Boot Camp then it isn't relevant.
To create a second partition on your existing startup volume:
To resize the drive do the following:
1. Open Disk Utility and select the drive entry (mfgr.'s ID and size) from the left side list.
2. Click on the Partition tab in the DU main window. You should see the graphical sizing window showing the existing partitions. A portion may appear as a blue rectangle representing the used space on a partition.
3. In the lower right corner of the sizing rectangle for each partition is a resizing gadget. Select it with the mouse and move the bottom of the rectangle upwards until you have reduced the existing partition enough to create the desired new volume's size. The space below the resized partition will appear gray. Click on the Apply button and wait until the process has completed. (Note: You can only make a partition smaller in order to create new free space.)
4. Click on the [+] button below the sizing window to add a new partition in the gray space you freed up. Give the new volume a name, if you wish, then click on the Apply button. Wait until the process has completed.
You should now have a new volume on the drive.
It would be wise to have a backup of your current system as resizing is not necessarily free of risk for data loss. Your drive must have sufficient contiguous free space for this process to work.
Now, you cannot add a new partition that exceeds the amount of contiguous free space at the end of the drive. Disk Utility will fail to add the partition if it cannot find sufficient contiguous free space. If that's the case then you will need to follow your state outline - backup, boot from clone, erase internal, repartition internal, restore backup to one of the partitions (or both in your case.)

Snow Leopard on an external hard drive; sign-in issues, Snow Leopard on an external hard drive; sign-in issues

I have an older (circa 2006) MacBook running Tiger. I've been able to install Snow Leopard on an external hard drive and when I restart, it seems to boot from the external drive. However, it asks for a user name and password and the combination I use in Tiger doesn't work. I don't get an option for an admin user/password.
Any suggestions?

If you did a fresh installation from the original installer disk, then unless you used Migration Utility as part of the installation then you would have been stepped through the process to set up a user acount. Without that there would be no account to log into. So either you don't remember, you didn't install on an empty drive, or you used Migration Utility.
In any case, boot from the original installer, select the external drive, and under the Utilities menu choose Password Reset.
Regards.

I've installed LION. Is it possible to put Snow Leopard on an external hard drive?

I've installed LION. Is it possible to put Snow Leopard on an external hard drive?

I was unaware of this change for usb support! However Babowa makes a good point in that you would probably not want to run SL via USB and rather Firewire.
Having said that, the 13" MacBooks do not have firewire.
But again as Babowa points out, that machine wouldn't be able to run Lion anyway.

I had Leopard on may Mac. I upgraded to Mountain Lion using Snow Leopard. I can't use my video with Mountain Lion. Can I load Snow Leopard on an external hard drive so I can use it with my camera?

I had Leopard on may Mac. I upgraded to Mountain Lion using Snow Leopard. I can't use my video with Mountain Lion. Can I load Snow Leopard on an external hard drive so I can use it with my camera?

First, you cannot do this if you have a Boot Camp partition.
Second: Create a new partition.
1. Restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the COMMAND and R keys until the menu screen appears. Alternatively, restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the OPTION key until the boot manager screen appears. Select the Recovery HD and click on the downward pointing arrow button.
After the main menu appears select Disk Utility and click on the Continue button. Select the hard drive's main entry then click on the Partition tab in the DU main window.
2. You should see the graphical sizing window showing the existing partitions. A portion may appear as a blue rectangle representing the used space on a partition.
3. In the lower right corner of the sizing rectangle for each partition is a resizing gadget. Select it with the mouse and move the bottom of the rectangle upwards until you have reduced the existing partition enough to create the desired new volume's size. The space below the resized partition will appear gray. Click on the Apply button and wait until the process has completed. (Note: You can only make a partition smaller in order to create new free space.)
4. Click on the [+] button below the sizing window to add a new partition in the gray space you freed up. Give the new volume a name, if you wish, then click on the Apply button. Wait until the process has completed.
You should now have a new volume on the drive.
It would be wise to have a backup of your current system as resizing is not necessarily free of risk for data loss. Your drive must have sufficient contiguous free space for this process to work.
Third: Install Snow Leopard.
Boot from your Snow Leopard DVD. Follow instructions for installation being sure that before you actually install Snow Leopard you have selected the new partition as your target destination.
Booting From An OS X Installer Disc
1. Insert OS X Installer Disc into the optical drive.
2. Restart the computer.
3. Immediately after the chime press and hold down the "C" key.
4. Release the key when the spinning gear below the dark gray Apple logo
appears.
5. Wait for installer to finish loading.

I had iLife pre-installed on my aluminium Macbook 2009 with OSX Leopard on it. My hard drive broke but got most of the info off it and just installed snow Leopard on to a new drive and then downloaded and installed Mountain Lion over it. Now I don't have

I had iLife pre-installed on my aluminium Macbook 2009 with OSX Leopard on it. My hard drive broke but got most of the info off it and just installed snow Leopard on to a new drive and then downloaded and installed Mountain Lion over it. Now I don't have iLife anymore. How do I get it back?

Welcome to Apple Support Communities
Mac OS X doesn't come with iLife applications, so you have to install them manually after installing Mac OS X.
Insert the Applications disc or Mac OS X Install Disc 2 DVD and install iLfe applications. Then, open  > Software Update, and install the latest update. If you want, you can purchase iMovie, GarageBand and iPhoto in the App Store, so you will get the most recent version

Can I install Snow Leopard with an external disk drive?

I have been trying to update my software to Snow Leopard but I am using an external disk drive and when I try to install the software I get the message "The application 'Install Mac OS X' cannot be used from this volume". Is there any way to fix this problem?

Are you booting your computer from an external drive? If so please say why? How are you trying to upgrade to Snow Leopard? Do you have the 10.6.3 retail Snow Leopard DVD? On what drive are you trying to install Snow Leopard? Are you doing this?
1. Repair the Hard Drive and Permissions
Boot from your Snow Leopard Installer disc. After the installer loads select your language and click on the Continue button. When the menu bar appears select Disk Utility from the Utilities menu. After DU loads select your hard drive entry (mfgr.'s ID and drive size) from the the left side list. In the DU status area you will see an entry for the S.M.A.R.T. status of the hard drive. If it does not say "Verified" then the hard drive is failing or failed. (SMART status is not reported on external Firewire or USB drives.) If the drive is "Verified" then select your OS X volume from the list on the left (sub-entry below the drive entry,) click on the First Aid tab, then click on the Repair Disk button. If DU reports any errors that have been fixed, then re-run Repair Disk until no errors are reported. If no errors are reported click on the Repair Permissions button. Wait until the operation completes, then quit DU and return to the installer.
If DU reports errors it cannot fix, then you will need Disk Warrior and/or Tech Tool Pro to repair the drive. If you don't have either of them or if neither of them can fix the drive, then you will need to reformat the drive and reinstall OS X.
2. Install Snow Leopard
If the drive is OK then quit DU and return to the installer. Proceed with installing OS X. Note that the Snow Leopard installer will not erase your drive or disturb your files. After installing a fresh copy of OS X the installer will move your Home folder, third-party applications, support items, and network preferences into the newly installed system.
Download and install Mac OS X 10.6.8 Update Combo v1.1. Then use Software Update to download and install any other needed updates for Snow Leopard.

I want to triple boot Have Snow Leopard and XP on separate drives and I want Windows 7 on another drive, can it be done by temporarily removing the xp drive and installing windows 7 on another internal drive?

I want to triple boot my Mac Pro I have Snow Leopard and XP on separate drives (osx on drive 1, xp on drive 2) and I want Windows 7 on another drive (drive 4, drive 3 is used by osx for storage), can it be done by temporarily removing the xp drive and installing windows 7 on drive 4?
I realise bootcamp only allows 2 operating systems and refit could change the size of my current xp drive to accomodate W7, that is not an option here for various reasons one being the drive is pretty much at capacity with only about 30gig free (I work with video so that free space fluctautes quite a bit). I have a brand new drive 4 with 1TB set aside ready for W7 but I'm unsure how to go ahead?
any help or advice would be really appreciated, thanks

Boot Camp is used to support Windows on the same drive.
You can have a different OS on every drive.
You could have Windows 7, Vista, and XP all on one drive if you so choose.
I recommend not putting Windows and OS X on the same dirve when talking about Mac Pro - unless you just need something small and lite.
Remove all your other drives while you install Windows 7.
You could even relocate XP - if you need it even - or recover the hard drive space.
You should always keep 30% free for Mac OS; same for data/media drives.
Considering 1.5TB WD Black $110.... and you want OS X to be on a fast high performance drive as well.

Could someone help me quickly, i put in new harddrive, lion is installing, but snow leopard cd is in my drive - will this cause problems?

the harddrive on my 2008 24" imac died, i purchased a new harddrive and my husband installed it with no problem. i had some misinformation that i would have to reinstall snow leopard and then i could upgrade to lion.
i turned on the computer put the snow leopard installation cd in the drive, then my computer opens to the pewter gray linen looking screen and i see that i can install lion from there. i used the disk utility and erased the new drive, and reformatted and then i went back to the install lion screen and lion is downloading with no problem, BUT that snow leopard cd is in my drive and i can't eject it. is it going to give me problems when the computer automatically reboots? will it try to reboot to that cd instead of continuing with the lion install? can i hold down my mouse to eject it when it reboots or will that mess up the installation?
confused, and i have an hour and 33 minutes to figure it out before it downloads. panicking here.
any help would be appreciated!

thank you for answering so quickly, i was really concerned that the computer would try to boot from that cd instead of continuing with the lion install. this was too easy, i'm used to windows installation which is complicated. i should have known apple would have made it simple for me. thanks again for the help!

Snow Leopard crashes because of gdb

Hello all,
I am debugging a binary (assembly only) using GDB 6.3.50-20050815 (Apple version gdb-1510) installed via latest XCode version and I am interested in watching $EAX for a specific value.
The problem is whenever I set a watchpoint for a register ("watch $eax", or "watch $eax == 0x12345678" i.e.) and issue "continue", the system crashes right away and I get rebooted. If I single-step it, there is no problem, until I continue the execution.
I've tried setting it to use software watchpoint (expecting a less severe error), but still Snow Leopard crashes.
On GDB 7.1 I was facing a similar problem (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4670185/snow-leopard-crashes-after-gdb-attemp ts-to-access-an-address-using-watchpoints) but I let it go since this was a too fresh gdb version. But I don't think this is the case for watching a register on 6.3.
Any ideia? I wonder is there is any log that I could look at.
Thanks

Hi,
There was no relevant log info. See console output for "All Messages":
19/01/11 11:06:25 brunovelasco[375] Notice sdsd
19/01/11 12:09:49 kernel Debug npvhash=4095
19/01/11 11:06:25 brunovelasco[375] Notice sd
======> Crash happens here <======
19/01/11 12:09:49 kernel Debug Darwin Kernel Version 10.6.0: Wed Nov 10 18:11:58 PST 2010; root:xnu-1504.9.26~3/RELEASEX8664
19/01/11 12:09:49 kernel Debug vmpagebootstrap: 941583 free pages and 33265 wired pages
19/01/11 12:09:49 kernel Debug kext submap [0xffffff7f80600000 - 0xffffff8000000000], kernel text [0xffffff8000200000 - 0xffffff8000600000]
Just before reproducing the crash I generated a debug dummy message ("sdsdsd") as a checkpoint, using "logger", and there was any log message further this one (besides the bootup ones, of course). Bootup messages don't say anything. I checked it using Console and Profiler.
I was also looking forward to see any log or gdb dump.
UPDATE: crash happens for watching a specific value and not for a general watch ("watch $eax" is fine; "watch $eax == 0x12345678" reboots).

Snow Leopard crashes increasing

Hello-
Since updating to Snow Leopard, my mac crashes three-four times a week. Lately it's been happening two or more times a day. It starts with the screen freezing, then part of the screen doesn't display the video correctly (like another image is being displayed...) then it restarts on it's own. I've never seen the display do this- and it can't be a good sign.
I haven't been able to determine any responsible application, and I'm on my fourth SL re-install. Does anybody have any ideas why Snow Leopard crashes so much? Any ideas are welcome.
Thanks

An update to my problem:
I think there are two types of crashes happening:
1) _With restart_. This happens almost exclusively while iDVD is rendering video.
2) _System freeze._ I can't pin these crashes to any application, and I have to do a hard restart to get out of it. These happen almost daily.
I tried reinstalling iDVD from the disk that came with my computer, but he option to install is greyed out. I deleted the iDVD cache in my home folder and themes from iDVD 1-4. Unfortunately it is still happening.
Ay thoughts?
Thanks!

ITunes 10.5 on Snow Leopard crashes

My iTunes 10.5 on Snow Leopard crashes after several minutes from starting. I've tried to reinstall it many times, but nothing helps. What should I do to solve this problem?

Very many thanks to you, Putaro! Your answer provided the solution. It was a buggy plug-in that turned out to be the culprit.
You're off the hook, Apple, and my apologies for stating that you let a dog run loose. You skated by this time, Apple. But I'm watching you.
But again, Putaro's reference to the plugins I had installed over the years turned out to illuminate the problem. I have several plugins in my iTunes plugins folder, pretty much all designed to add more visualizer functionality. I removed all of them, and ALL of the problems I noted in my post went away, with full iTunes functionality restored.
I began adding the plugins back to hopefully single out the culprit. Among the ones I had been using included fielder, G-Force, Timestrech, volcanokit, QuartzComposer, and Jax. I hadn't used any of them in a while - probably at least a verison or more back in iTunes updates, but iTunes continued to work with all of them installed. Currently, only QuartzComposer continues to work in iTunes 10.4. The rest no longer even show up as visualizer opitons, with one exception. Jax does show up, but does not work. AND THE PRESENCE OF JAX IS WHAT KILLED MY ITUNES.
I looked into it and went back to the developer, and it appears that they discontinued developing Jax some time ago - evidently, it was buggy and crash prone. I remember after buying it, having problems with it - having never worked to its touted potential, but I didn't pursue it, and never uninstalled it. Leaving it in there caused all iTunes functionality to cease with the iTunes 10.4 update.
If you've got Jax installed, consider removing it before updating to iTunes 10.4.
My iTunes is now working right as rain, thanks again to Putaro!
-Jon

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