Windows 7 installation froze at final step
So i restarted the computer, and now im stuck in an endless "setup will continue after restarting your comp. click ok to retstart your computer." It does that
everytime i restart by clicking ok. help? (used bootcamp)
2010 mac running Lion OSX
you bought xyz
you burned electronic iso is very common
your dvd drive is compatible, some are not
the dvd disc itself is the issue?
try installing in a VM like virtualbox
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According to your description, it seems that your all Windows 8.1 computers connect to network via normal wireless network.
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Use this option to verify the correctness of the redundant data in
a volume set. For example, in a system with dedicated parity, volume
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and comparing the results to the contents of the dedicated parity
disk drive. The checking percentage can also be viewed by clicking
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Hi,
In the final step of my grid installer, I am getting an error :
When I executed the below command, this is my output:
[oracle@falcen6a grid]$ ./runcluvfy.sh stage -post crsinst -n falcen6a,falcen6b -verbose
Performing post-checks for cluster services setup
Checking node reachability...
Check: Node reachability from node "falcen6a"
Destination Node Reachable? falcen6a yes
falcen6b yes
Result: Node reachability check passed from node "falcen6a"
Checking user equivalence...
Check: User equivalence for user "oracle"
Node Name Comment
falcen6b passed
falcen6a passed
Result: User equivalence check passed for user "oracle"
Checking time zone consistency...
Time zone consistency check passed.
Checking Cluster manager integrity...
Checking CSS daemon...
Node Name Status
falcen6b running
falcen6a running
Oracle Cluster Synchronization Services appear to be online.
Cluster manager integrity check passed
UDev attributes check for OCR locations started...
Result: UDev attributes check passed for OCR locations
UDev attributes check for Voting Disk locations started...
Result: UDev attributes check passed for Voting Disk locations
Check default user file creation mask
Node Name Available Required Comment
falcen6b 0022 0022 passed
falcen6a 0022 0022 passed
Result: Default user file creation mask check passed
Checking cluster integrity...
Cluster is divided into 2 partitions
Partition 1 consists of the following members:
Node Name falcen6b
Partition 2 consists of the following members:
Node Name falcen6a
Cluster integrity check failed. Cluster is divided into 2 partition(s).
Checking OCR integrity...
Checking the absence of a non-clustered configuration...
All nodes free of non-clustered, local-only configurations
ERROR:
PRVF-4193 : Asm is not running on the following nodes. Proceeding with the remaining nodes.
Checking OCR config file "/etc/oracle/ocr.loc"...
OCR config file "/etc/oracle/ocr.loc" check successful
ERROR:
PRVF-4195 : Disk group for ocr location "+DATA" not available on the following nodes:
Checking size of the OCR location "+DATA" ...
Size check for OCR location "+DATA" successful...
OCR integrity check failed
Checking CRS integrity...
ERROR:
PRVF-5316 : Failed to retrieve version of CRS installed on node "falcen6b"
The Oracle clusterware is healthy on node "falcen6b"
The Oracle clusterware is healthy on node "falcen6a"
CRS integrity check failed
Checking node application existence...
Checking existence of VIP node application
Node Name Required Status Comment
falcen6b yes unknown failed
falcen6a yes unknown failed
Result: Check failed.
Checking existence of ONS node application
Node Name Required Status Comment falcen6b no unknown ignored
falcen6a no online passed
Result: Check ignored.
Checking existence of GSD node application
Node Name Required Status Comment falcen6b no unknown ignored
falcen6a no does not exist ignored
Result: Check ignored.
Checking existence of EONS node application
Node Name Required Status Comment falcen6b no unknown ignored
falcen6a no online passed
Result: Check ignored.
Checking existence of NETWORK node application
Node Name Required Status Comment falcen6b no unknown ignored
falcen6a no online passed
Result: Check ignored.
Checking Single Client Access Name (SCAN)...
SCAN VIP name Node Running? ListenerName Port Running?
falcen6-scan unknown false LISTENER 1521 false
WARNING:
PRVF-5056 : Scan Listener "LISTENER" not running
Checking name resolution setup for "falcen6-scan"...
SCAN Name IP Address Status Comment falcen6-scan 192.168.100.210 passed
falcen6-scan 192.168.100.208 passed
falcen6-scan 192.168.100.209 passed
Verification of SCAN VIP and Listener setup failed
OCR detected on ASM. Running ACFS Integrity checks...
Starting check to see if ASM is running on all cluster nodes...
PRVF-5137 : Failure while checking ASM status on node "falcen6b"
Starting Disk Groups check to see if at least one Disk Group configured...
Disk Group Check passed. At least one Disk Group configured
Task ACFS Integrity check failed
Checking Oracle Cluster Voting Disk configuration...
Oracle Cluster Voting Disk configuration check passed
Checking to make sure user "oracle" is not in "root" group
Node Name Status Comment falcen6b does not exist passed
falcen6a does not exist passed
Result: User "oracle" is not part of "root" group. Check passed
Checking if Clusterware is installed on all nodes...
Check of Clusterware install passed
Checking if CTSS Resource is running on all nodes...
Check: CTSS Resource running on all nodes
Node Name Status falcen6b passed
falcen6a passed
Result: CTSS resource check passed
Querying CTSS for time offset on all nodes...
Result: Query of CTSS for time offset passed
Check CTSS state started...
Check: CTSS state
Node Name State
falcen6b Observer
falcen6a Observer
CTSS is in Observer state. Switching over to clock synchronization checks using NTP
Starting Clock synchronization checks using Network Time Protocol(NTP)...
NTP Configuration file check started...
The NTP configuration file "/etc/ntp.conf" is available on all nodes
NTP Configuration file check passed
Checking daemon liveness...
Check: Liveness for "ntpd"
Node Name Running?
falcen6b yes
falcen6a yes
Result: Liveness check passed for "ntpd"
Checking NTP daemon command line for slewing option "-x"
Check: NTP daemon command line
Node Name Slewing Option Set? falcen6b yes
falcen6a yes
Result:
NTP daemon slewing option check passed
Checking NTP daemon's boot time configuration, in file "/etc/sysconfig/ntpd", for slewing option "-x"
Check: NTP daemon's boot time configuration
Node Name Slewing Option Set? falcen6b yes
falcen6a yes
Result:
NTP daemon's boot time configuration check for slewing option passed
NTP common Time Server Check started...
NTP Time Server "133.243.236.19" is common to all nodes on which the NTP daemon is running
NTP Time Server "133.243.236.18" is common to all nodes on which the NTP daemon is running
NTP Time Server "210.173.160.86" is common to all nodes on which the NTP daemon is running
NTP Time Server ".LOCL." is common to all nodes on which the NTP daemon is running
Check of common NTP Time Server passed
Clock time offset check from NTP Time Server started...
Checking on nodes "[falcen6b, falcen6a]"...
Check: Clock time offset from NTP Time Server
Time Server: 133.243.236.19
Time Offset Limit: 1000.0 msecs
Node Name Time Offset Status falcen6b 15.332 passed
falcen6a -1.503 passed
Time Server "133.243.236.19" has time offsets that are within permissible limits for nodes "[falcen6b, falcen6a]".
Time Server: 133.243.236.18
Time Offset Limit: 1000.0 msecs
Node Name Time Offset Status falcen6b 15.115 passed
falcen6a -1.614 passed
Time Server "133.243.236.18" has time offsets that are within permissible limits for nodes "[falcen6b, falcen6a]".
Time Server: 210.173.160.86
Time Offset Limit: 1000.0 msecs
Node Name Time Offset Status falcen6b 15.219 passed
falcen6a -1.527 passed
Time Server "210.173.160.86" has time offsets that are within permissible limits for nodes "[falcen6b, falcen6a]".
Time Server: .LOCL.
Time Offset Limit: 1000.0 msecs
Node Name Time Offset Status falcen6b 0.0 passed
falcen6a 0.0 passed
Time Server ".LOCL." has time offsets that are within permissible limits for nodes "[falcen6b, falcen6a]".
Clock time offset check passed
Result: Clock synchronization check using Network Time Protocol(NTP) passed
Oracle Cluster Time Synchronization Services check passed
Post-check for cluster services setup was unsuccessful on all the nodes.
[oracle@falcen6a grid]$
Any suggestions?This is my output for ocr check from both the nodes:
[oracle@falcen6a bin]$ ./ocrcheck
Status of Oracle Cluster Registry is as follows :
Version : 3
Total space (kbytes) : 262120
Used space (kbytes) : 2204
Available space (kbytes) : 259916
ID : 960988220
Device/File Name : +DATA
Device/File integrity check succeeded
Device/File not configured
Device/File not configured
Device/File not configured
Device/File not configured
Cluster registry integrity check succeeded
Logical corruption check bypassed due to non-privileged user
RAC2:
[oracle@falcen6b bin]$ ./ocrcheck
Status of Oracle Cluster Registry is as follows :
Version : 3
Total space (kbytes) : 262120
Used space (kbytes) : 2056
Available space (kbytes) : 260064
ID : 1720050235
Device/File Name : +DATA
Device/File integrity check succeeded
Device/File not configured
Device/File not configured
Device/File not configured
Device/File not configured
Cluster registry integrity check succeeded
Logical corruption check bypassed due to non-privileged user -
Final Step away from Windoze (Need help) [easily SOLVED]
Hi all,
I am preparing to take my final step away from windows OS, as the more I learn about Linux, the more I detest the majority of my hard drive being dedicated to a monopolus (if that's a word), closed monster. However there is one thing that I need, Starcraft and TF2 (team fortress 2). In an i686 installation this would be very easy... install wine. This will not work, as I am posting in Arch64, you must have guessed that I have a 64 bit system.
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You can also probably find something about FAM there. (I use gamin and it works fine)
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Making a Windows 7 Installation USB Stick
This is a discussion of making a bootable Windows 7 Installation USB-stick Media. It might apply to making other USB connected "Disks" like Smartcards bootable too.
I recently had to do this (a Laptop with no build-in DVD drive and no USB DVD drive around). And it turned out to be surprisingly simple, using nothing but build in Windows tools from the Disk. I only found
this german langauge guide and nothing in english (but I might just have searched after the wrong terms, google has been wierd regarding langauge lately), so I thought I write it up (along with some problems I ran into).
Making a USB-Stick into a bootable Windows 7 (and propably Vista) Media is a 3 step process:
1. Create a Active, Primary, FAT32 Partition of 4+ GB on the stick
2. use bootsect.exe from Windows Disk to create the MBR and Partition Boot Record for that Partition
3. Copy all files from the Disk to said Partition
4. Test if it boots
Detail analysis:
Step 1 is so simple I doubt it needs explanations. Create enough free space on the USB disk (at worst delete all previous Partitions). Make a Priamry Partition of 4+ GiB. Mark it as Active. Format it in FAT32. The Guide used Diskpart,
but this step can be done with any Partition Tool under any Windows, Linux, UNIX or DOS.
While the choice of FAT32 seems a bit outdated, theye propably did not gave the relevant bootlaoder the ability to read NTFS. Or maybe they just though FAT32 is enough for a media that is mostly read. I have not tried what happens if I format it in NTFS, but
it might be possible.
Step 2 was the only tricky part. You need the programm "boot\bootsect.exe" from the Installation Media. It also must be run on a non-UEFI booted OS (otherwise it cancels out).
I had a Windows 8 on a new Laptop so I had a UEFI booted system. Luckily I also had a VMWare Windows 7 lying around. I just assigned the Windows 7 ISO image to the Windows 7 VM, then connected the USB drive to the host.
Once you have the USB stick in a a proper Windows mount the Parttion you created under 1 under any driveletter (should happen automatically under Windows), and open a console as Administrator (asumes DVD is drivletter is D: and the USB stick's partition
ins Driveletter E:):
//Go into the boot directory on the Install DVD
D:
cd boot
//You should see a command promt like "D:\BOOT>"
//Run bootsect.exe
bootsect.exe /nt60 d:
Step 3 is to either copy the contents of the DVD media (copy and paste) or the Image (Mount into Virtual DVD Drive and copy/paste, unpack ISO images contents) into the partition.
How does this compare to other Distribution ways?
To DVD:
There is no need for a DVD drive. Even if a bootable USB-DVD drive is avalible, the Stick or Card will only need only USB port (most USB drives need 2 Ports due the 1 Ampere energy need of the drives).
Flash Media has no seek times and much better throughput (the old weakpoint of any Disk and DVD/CD in particular)
A FAT32 partition is inherently writeable. So modifications to the "Installation media" like Implementing Service Packs and other Windwos Updates, Modifying ei.cfg/preactivation/setup answer files, implementing special Disk/RAID drivers into the Windows
PE or adding stuff that should be installed with Windows is easy (and do not requrie reburning a 4 GiB Image file).
Since it only needs a 4 GiB partition, on a big USB stick there would still be place for other Data Partitions
Since it relies on old techniques (Generic Bootloader + Active Primary Partition + partition boot loader), multiple Installation media on a big enough stick might be feasible (with a more advanced bootloader like GRUB). Have to test that part.
However, the cost/media is a lot higher then a DVD. So if you need multiple Medias it will propably be cheaper to use the old DVD approach.
Due to the needs of bootsec.exe, first creating the media can be more difficulty then just burning an image. But once it is bootable this programm is no longer needed.
To PXE/network Distrubution:
If you have the nessesary setup already (DHCP/PXE Server, powerfull network), the USB stick is likely inferior. The USB stick should beat a 100 MBIT Network easily, but will propably be beaten by a 1 GBIT Network. Network isntallation uses existing infrastructure
(that you need for other reasons anyway) so the cost per media is even lower then the DVD.
The PXE way also has even better modifyability - sending out different answer files or even automatically booting different images based on the Compuers MAC adress are tried techniques.
If you lack the nessesary setup, the USB stick is a lot easier to implement and a lot easier to transport.
Advanced things:
Need to check if the partition could be formated as NTFS. I prefer a Journalling Filesystem for my USB-sticks.
Need to check if using a advanced boot manager techniques (like Grub or modifciations to the BCD of the Windows PE) allows me to put multiple install media on one Stick (with one primary partition per "media"). Especially combining the x32/x86 and
x64 Windows Installation Media would be worthwhile. As would be inlcuding a Window 8 or Vista installation media.
Current Step 3 and 2 can propably be switched. I see no reason bootsect could not run from the USB stick as it runs from the DVD (it only accesses the MBR and
VBR of the Disk, areas not in use by Windows)
Steps 1 through 3 might be possible from the Windows PE environment. If so, only a computer with legacy BIOS boot would be nessesary (no actuall installation).
Windows 7 can be installed on a (U)EFI system, but I have not checked if I can use the boot from teh stick on such a Computer. Latest for Windows 8 Media UEFI compatibilty is nessesary.
Let's talk about MVVM: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/wpf/thread/b1a8bf14-4acd-4d77-9df8-bdb95b02dbe2 Please mark post as helpfull and answers respectively.Advanced things:
Need to check if the partition could be formated as NTFS. I prefer a Journalling Filesystem for my USB-sticks.
Windows 7 can be installed on a (U)EFI system, but I have not checked if I can use the boot from teh stick on such a Computer. Latest for Windows 8 Media UEFI compatibilty is nessesary.
I converted the stick to NTFS using the convert.exe and it continued booting. So chances are high they only choose FAT32 in the example because no feature of NTFS was per nessesary in a "almost only reading" scenario like installation media.
The second part depends on the BIOS. I have a more advanced one where I can choose legacy boot options (like USB stick) in the boot option menu even when the default setting is UEFI, as long as I don't need Secure boot (wich I do not).
Another question arose: Windows 7 has the Kernel/BCD level ability to boot from .VHD Files. The only thing preventing version below corporate from using this feature is a license check that is run just before the login (so way after the booting has been
completed).
Starting with 3.0 Windows PE is based on the kernel of Windows 7. So the instlaltion system might have the ability to boot from .VHD too and might have no such check in place. If so, I could put both versions of the Windows 7 installer into .VHD, reducing the
need to have physical primary partitions for those.
Windows bootprocess vs. Linux boot process under BIOS:
The BIOS goes over all the boot media. If it finds one with a MBR, that one is executed and the BIOS part of the boot process is officially over.
-> Under Windows the MBR contains the "generic boot loader". A simple piece of code as old as BIOS (25 Years) that looks for the primary partition with "Active" Flag on "it's" disk. If it finds one, the Partition Boot Record of that parition is executed.
The MBR has done it's part
-> NTLDR (NT too 2000), this one reads the boot.ini file and gives/executeds apropirate options
-> BOOTMGR (Vista, 7), this one reads the BCD files
-> Since Windows 7 BOOTMGR can also chainload the Partition Boot Record that is inside a .VHD File
-> Wicher was used in Windows 3.X/95/98/ME
Higher versions can chainload lower versions, but must be designed for this and (re)installed in the proper "order".
The sometimes odd behavior that Windows 7 tries to keep 100 MiB in a seperate primary partition is there to have proper places for later additions to the BOOTMGR settings. Specifically it allows multiple BOOTMGR OS to use/edit the same BOOTMGR instace without
running into problems with "whose partition is active?" (since it is always the System Reserved one). It's not disimilar to having an extra /boot partition in Linux or how a GRUB's stage 2 works.
-> Under a typical Grub Legacy the MBR contains the Stage 1. It directly reads the Stage 2 from the proper partition/file system with a hardcoded path, but due to size limit of the MBR cannot do more. In some cases it starts a stage 1.5 wich has more
space to do work (63 sectors between MBR and first partition), but I never used this Setup
-> Stage 2 loads the Grub Configuration from the disk. From here it depends on what OS you want to boot.
-> For Linux or Unix the kernel is started directly.
-> Any Windows OS up to 7 can be booted using the chainloader command. For the OS this is identical to having the partition choosen by the Generic Bootloader.
While it can be chainloaded by the Generic Bootloader from the active primary partition, GRUB and thus Linux has no
requirement for any Primary Partitions. Stage 1 is designed to directly access the specific File System containng the Stage 2. In fact it does not even need to reside on the same disk (as the Generic Bootloader has to).
If one does not need the Active Flag to control the Generic Bootloader (because a proper Stage 1 is installed in MBR) it is adviseable to mark wichever Windows Partition is chainloaded as active (up to Vista at least I had very odd behavior if the Windows boot
partition was not marked active, down to randomly shredded Partition boot managers).
After running a Windows Setup usually the Stage 1 has to be restored, as Windwos Setup will always write it's Generic Bootloader in the MBR. In order to get "rid" of a Grub all one has to do is overwrite the MBR with the Generic Bootloader and set the active
flag properly.
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when I start my laptop it loads a third of the way and shuts down automaticallyI've tried to safe boot, repairing discs and clearing RAM but nothing has worked. basically I've come to the final step of having to a erase my hard drive and reinstall mountain lion however Apple support suggest that I install from a disc however I installed mountain lion from the App Store. can anyone help me go about this?
Install or Reinstall Lion/Mountain Lion from Scratch
Be sure you backup your files to an external drive or second internal drive because the following procedure will remove everything from the hard drive.
Boot to the Recovery HD:
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.
Erase the hard drive:
1. Select Disk Utility from the main menu and click on the Continue button.
2. After DU loads select your startup volume (usually Macintosh HD) from the
left side list. Click on the Erase tab in the DU main window.
3. Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled.) Optionally, click on
the Security button and set the Zero Data option to one-pass. Click on
the Erase button and wait until the process has completed.
4. Quit DU and return to the main menu.
Reinstall Lion: Select Reinstall Lion/Mountain Lion and click on the Install button.
Note: You will need an active Internet connection. I suggest using Ethernet if possible
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Boot Camp Assistant refuses to recognize my Windows 7 Installation Disc nor my USB
I have an iMac 20inch, early 2008 model. Back when I was running Leopard I installed Windows 7 with Boot Camp from a Windows 7 Installation ISO my friend had and I burnt it to a DVD and installed it without any problems. Later, after I got tried of windows, mostly because Windows really blows unless you want to game (which is what I was using it for), and I had contracted a virus, so I deleted Windows along with my partition after backing up any data that I though I might be able to use later. Now I am fully upgraded to Lion 10.7.2 and I downloaded the Windows installation drivers and whatever else Boot Camp persuades you to download and now at the step where I choose how much of my hard drive I want to partition, after I click partition, Boot Camp refuses to recognize that my installation disc is there no matter what format I put it in. I have followed every instruction given to me and nothing has worked. I'm thinking about trying to just partition my hard drive in Disc Utilities and formatting the new partition and then copying the ISO to the partition and seeing if it'll boot up.
Anybody have any better ideas, or solutions?Well I have tried downloaded a Windows 7 ISO, and tried mounting it on a USB flash drive and booting it from the USB, but that didn't work either (I heard that my version of OS X doesn't support that anymore because I already have an optical drive.)
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During Windows XP installation, 'Disk Error' shows.
In many other forums and other user experiences as well as the Bootcamp guide written by apple themselves, at one stage of installing Windows XP, normally after selecting the partition in which to install windows, it asks whether to format and into which format. However this does not happen on my Mac. After selecting the partition that was separated using Bootcamp, it does not ask to format but goes on to verify and then copy data into the partition.
A friend also said formatting is essential and the formatting option was included in the step-by-step procedures described by Apple, but this option was not present or shown in my installation. After the data was copied, it restarted the computer after completing the data copying and informing the user that the computer would be restarted. It then rebooted the same way as it did when I clicked 'Start Installation' on Bootcamp which restarted the computer and came to the start screen that displayed 'Press Space to boot from DVD' just as it did before. Pressing space opens another list where the first option is to press space to install Windows XP, other options show to boot something else and last option to reboot. If nothing is pressed, it jumps to another screen displaying the words 'Disk Error. Press Any key to restart' which happened every single time I tried to install windows and the only thing that I had realised was missing was the formatting of the partition that the Windows XP installation disk should have prompted which did not.
I had also tried accessing 'Disk Utilities' in the Mac OS X and erasing everything in the Bootcamp partition and putting it in FAT format whilst the partition for windows remained under 32 GB. However all attempts resulted in the same 'Disk Error' and never completed the XP setup.
Can someone please diagnose what problem this could be and suggest any possible solutions in order for me to successfully install my Windows XP Service Pack 2 on to my FAT32 format partition of 30GB. I believe it is related to the formatting issue.
Thank you very much.
ChrisHi Chris and welcome to Discussions,
what exactly is the error message you get when you try the "Format C: /FS:FAT32" command ?
Sadly it is indeed so that a whole batch of Windows XP CDs are 'missing' the reformat option. Don't know why that is so.
frederic1943 has described the correct procedure in this thread http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2071417&tstart=105
Have you waited long enough for the drivers to be loaded ?
To Antonio: Reformating the BootCamp Windows partition through the WIndows installer is indeed a neccessity.
When using NTFS as file system for WIndows (neccessary for Vista and Windows 7) it is a must since OSX cannot write to NTFS by default.
With FAT32 also, since the BootCamp Assistant only does some sort of 'preformating'.
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1722
Regards
Stefan
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