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Q: Yosemite/Boot Camp installation hangs.

I had previously set up Windows with Boot Camp before moving to Yosemite and all seemed to work well.

When I no longer needed Windows I deleted it.

I am now trying to reinstall Windows ( I need to somehow update the firmware on my self-installed Crucial SSD, which apparently I cannot do under OS X) but cannot get to the actual Windows install stage of the process. The machine seems reluctant to boot to Windows for the set up.

Boot Camp successfully creates the Boot Camp partition and the USB memory stick with the Windows ISO and support files.

At this point, a message box pops up asking if I want to continue or abort, but before I can do anything the system shuts down and restarts.

On restart, there is no WiFi connection, but otherwise all seems to be OS X normal. There is no pending Windows installation, and on starting Boot Camp all I am able to do is remove the Windows partition.

I tried a reinstall of Yosemite which seemed to go well, but the problem remains.

A very small version of the above mentioned message box seems to remain in the system and appears at certain points. That just confuses me!

 

The system is relatively new and shouldn't have and oddball utilities or drivers so I'm a little baffled.

iMac (27-inch, Late 2013), Mac OS X (10.0.x)

Posted on Jan 11, 2015 3:43 AM

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  • by Loner T,

    Loner T Loner T Jan 11, 2015 4:42 AM in response to baregills
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    Jan 11, 2015 4:42 AM in response to baregills

    baregills wrote:

     

    When I no longer needed Windows I deleted it.

    How was it deleted? Via BCA or Disk Utility?

    I am now trying to reinstall Windows ( I need to somehow update the firmware on my self-installed Crucial SSD, which apparently I cannot do under OS X) but cannot get to the actual Windows install stage of the process.

    You may want to check Crucial forums, because I recall a similar thread with a solution. Please see http://forum.crucial.com/t5/Crucial-SSDs/How-to-update-M4-SSD-firmware-for-Mac-O s-X-users/td-p/59000.

     

    Boot Camp successfully creates the Boot Camp partition and the USB memory stick with the Windows ISO and support files.

    At this point, a message box pops up asking if I want to continue or abort, but before I can do anything the system shuts down and restarts.

    Is this message from BCA? You may want to use Quicktime Screen Recording and capture it, if possible.

  • by baregills,

    baregills baregills Jan 11, 2015 5:37 AM in response to Loner T
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    Jan 11, 2015 5:37 AM in response to Loner T

    How was it deleted? Via BCA or Disk Utility?

     

    I deleted Windows via Boot Camp, however I decided later to reinstall OS X which I did by means of the download and restore to original state method.

     

    You may want to check Crucial forums....

    Thanks. I have looked at the Crucial forums and am trying various options!!

     

    Is this message from BCA?


    The message is from BCA - it pops up just as the initial procedure of partitioning and writing to the memory stick completes. It seems to be a confirmation of wishing to go ahead. Unfortunately the screen fades to black immediately and I can do nothing to respond to it.

  • by Loner T,

    Loner T Loner T Jan 11, 2015 6:07 AM in response to baregills
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    Jan 11, 2015 6:07 AM in response to baregills

    baregills wrote:

     

    Is this message from BCA?

     

    The message is from BCA - it pops up just as the initial procedure of partitioning and writing to the memory stick completes. It seems to be a confirmation of wishing to go ahead. Unfortunately the screen fades to black immediately and I can do nothing to respond to it.

    Can you try the Quicktime Screen Recording approach?

  • by baregills,

    baregills baregills Jan 11, 2015 6:32 AM in response to Loner T
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    Jan 11, 2015 6:32 AM in response to Loner T

    I have tried the Quicktime screen recording as suggested.

     

    Unfortunately the recording stopped just before the pop up appeared.

     

    Interestingly though, this time was different.

    The restart took me to the OS X recovery option.

    Don't know why, I pressed no keys.

     

    Here's the final frame.

    Screen Shot 2015-01-11 at 14.29.45.png

  • by Loner T,

    Loner T Loner T Jan 11, 2015 9:16 AM in response to baregills
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    Jan 11, 2015 9:16 AM in response to baregills

    Is your primary OS X SSD boot partition located where your built-in Optical drive used to be? BCA is setting the nvram to boot from this device path and whatever is bootable there, it will use that to boot. Local Recovery HD then OS X in that order, since Windows is not installed yet.

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    baregills baregills Jan 11, 2015 12:23 PM in response to Loner T
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    Jan 11, 2015 12:23 PM in response to Loner T

    Unfortunately my iMac has only one SATA port. I removed the original HDD and replaced it with the SSD.

    As I said earlier, it all worked fine initially. Something weird has happened since then.

    Earlier I shrunk my OS X partition, set up another partition and downloaded a new version of Yosemite. I had hoped to set up a Windows partition using this, but I hadn't realised that Boot Camp can only work with one partition. That's another hour wasted!!

     

    It's beginning to look as if I might have to remove the SSD and update the firmware on another box. I don't really want to go through splitting the casing again for that though.

     

    HOpefully something will turn up.

  • by baregills,Solvedanswer

    baregills baregills Jan 12, 2015 1:19 AM in response to Loner T
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    Jan 12, 2015 1:19 AM in response to Loner T

    I decided to start from scratch so reformatted and reinstalled Yosemite from scratch.

    That cleared the problem as reported.

    I now have a different problem which I hope I can resolve.

    Thanks for your help.

  • by Loner T,

    Loner T Loner T Jan 12, 2015 3:45 AM in response to baregills
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    Jan 12, 2015 3:45 AM in response to baregills

    What new issue are you running into?

  • by baregills,

    baregills baregills Jan 12, 2015 4:49 AM in response to Loner T
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    Jan 12, 2015 4:49 AM in response to Loner T

    On rebooting into Windows set up, the program asks where the Windows installation should go.

    Obviously the BOOTCAMP partition is the answer so that is selected.

    Now it needs to be reformatted as NTFS.

    Unfortunately Windows then refuses to continue, saying it cannot create a partition or find an existing one.

    There is no way forward here. It is necessary to shut down the setup routine and return to OS X and to delete the BOOTCAMP partition with BCA.

    There seems to be nothing on this forum about this issue other than one unanswered post, but searching Windows forums, it transpires that setup cannot handle more than four partitions.

    With my Time Machine drive connected, I have five.

    Disconnecting the drive allowed me to continue and set up Windows without further problems.

    But, having done that, I am still unable to update the firmware on my SSD.

    The Crucial supplied Windows utility to do this has a problem when running under Boot Camp and whilst it appears to work initially, on the reboot the system fails to load. It seems to be related to the MBR of the drive and I don't want to get into playing with those settings.

    I am now back at square one and trying to decide if the upgrade is really worth the aggravation or whether I should just leave it as is.

    Fears for my future sanity tells me to leave it alone.

  • by Loner T,

    Loner T Loner T Jan 12, 2015 5:04 AM in response to baregills
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    Jan 12, 2015 5:04 AM in response to baregills

    baregills wrote:

     

    Fears for my future sanity tells me to leave it alone.

    Look at the release notes of the firmware update and decide how critical is the upgrade. For example, if the update fixes potential data loss bugs, you should upgrade. Was the Syslinux/FreeDOS route not working?

  • by baregills,

    baregills baregills Jan 12, 2015 5:18 AM in response to Loner T
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    Jan 12, 2015 5:18 AM in response to Loner T

    The firmware update is supposed to improve performance, reliability and also fixes various bugs.

     

    Nothing seems critical, but probably worth doing if possible.

     

    As to Syslinux and FreeDOS, I'm not too sure how they will help as I just can't seem to boot from anything but the primary drive regardless of what I try.

     

    I will look into them though, just in case.

     

    Thanks again.

  • by Loner T,

    Loner T Loner T Jan 12, 2015 6:40 AM in response to baregills
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    Jan 12, 2015 6:40 AM in response to baregills

    What is the exact model of your Crucial SSD?

     

    Please also see http://www.crucial.com/wcsstore/CrucialSAS/firmware/M550/MU02/crucial-m550-iso-f irmware-update-mu02-en.pdf as an example, specifically the section Create Bootable Media with the ISO .

     

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    baregills baregills Jan 12, 2015 6:56 AM in response to Loner T
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    Loner T Loner T Jan 12, 2015 7:06 AM in response to baregills
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