Mountain Lion installation fails (No Recovery) - Mac Pro '10

No sweat. I'm a little surprised that the Nvidia card isn't supported. Maybe new firmware would help, Nvidia seems to produce a ot of firmware updates. Good luck! (but a conversation for a different thread).

I can't say that I see Apple or Nvidia offering any firmware, there was 7300GT but that was 2007 pre-2008 and hence not eligible for ML and that card doesn't really support Lion.

There is the GT120 and those still work but no firmware posted.

GTX 285 Mac Edition is only other Nvidia card

The 8800GT, those were sold as BTO 2008 and those that haven't died or been in the oven should work, I have one but again, no firmware.

I see the last update to Geforce/Quarda boards for (some) Macs being May of this year (for 10.7, not 10.8 so beware)

http://www.nvidia.com/object/macosx-270.00.00f06-driver.html

I get an automatic notice for windows/linux from HP on new Nvidia bios and tools every 2-3 months I'd say. It depends on the product of course, I have a Quarda FX 4800, but its on my PC not my Mac (I have a full sized PC but a Macbook Pro).

Drivers are not firmware updates.

CUDA updates have been needed to be udpated or reapplied after most every OS X minor update too.

Those are just drivers because Apple does not and has not included full driver support for Nvidia based graphic cards, though ML does and seems to have support for GTX 6xxx like the 670 (because of the 650M now used in MacBook Pro line for one thing).

I am having this issue as well, I don't have any boot camp configuration though??

USXXHARDARMBP1:/Applications/Install OS X Mountain Lion.app $ diskutil list

/dev/disk0

#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER

0: GUID_partition_scheme *500.1 GB disk0

1: EFI 209.7 MB disk0s1

2: Apple_HFS Macintosh HD 499.2 GB disk0s2

3: Apple_Boot Recovery HD 602.1 MB disk0s3

also, when I try to boot into safe mode, I get a pw prompt/lock where I don't know what the pw is/should be?

thanks, bob

I am also having this issue, I do not have Nivida card here is my disk config:

/dev/disk0

#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER

0: GUID_partition_scheme *1.0 TB disk0

1: EFI 209.7 MB disk0s1

2: Apple_HFS Macintosh HD 986.6 GB disk0s2

3: Apple_Boot Recovery HD 603.6 MB disk0s3

/dev/disk1

#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER

0: FDisk_partition_scheme *500.1 GB disk1

1: Apple_HFS My Passport 500.1 GB disk1s1

Tried to boot using command R but goes to MT Install and hangs.

No bootcamp.

Model Name: iMac

Model Identifier: iMac10,1

Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo

Processor Speed: 3.06 GHz

Number of Processors: 1

Total Number of Cores: 2

L2 Cache: 3 MB

Memory: 4 GB

Bus Speed: 1.07 GHz

Boot ROM Version: IM101.00CC.B00

SMC Version (system): 1.53f13

Any suggestions?

Message was edited by: Delaware Frankie

system config:

Model Name: iMac

Model Identifier: iMac10,1

Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo

Processor Speed: 3.06 GHz

Number of Processors: 1

Total Number of Cores: 2

L2 Cache: 3 MB

Memory: 4 GB

Bus Speed: 1.07 GHz

Boot ROM Version: IM101.00CC.B00

SMC Version (system): 1.53f13

found a .OSInstallMessages file under / containing this entry:

<dict>

<key>Domain</key>

<string>com.apple.installer.createrecovery</string>

<key>Message</key>

<string>Failed to create recovery partition with error -69713</string>

<key>Result</key>

<string>failure</string>

<key>Signatures</key>

<array>

Yea you would think software update would update **** like this but I guess not. What's the point of having software update if not for **** like this? Pretty peeved that people like us have to go around figuring **** like this out on our own.

Recovery update is for people who keep getting the "some features of Mac os x ML are not supported on this disk" because of lack of recovery HD or whatever. This happens even if you have Lion with recovery.

right, I get that warning msg as well! My drive layout is pretty simple, and the recovery partition looks fine?:

USHARMBP1:/ $ diskutil list

/dev/disk0

#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER

0: GUID_partition_scheme *500.1 GB disk0

1: EFI 209.7 MB disk0s1

2: Apple_HFS Macintosh HD 499.2 GB disk0s2

3: Apple_Boot Recovery HD 602.1 MB disk0s3

I tried and failed for several hours to install Mountain Lion, and was repeatedly getting the "Recovery System" cannot be created error. I tried all the tricks: resizing the drive partition, booting from an external boot drive, all to no avail. After reading other users struggling with the same issue, I had determined it to be a boot camp drive error. However, I didn't want to have to erase and begin anew when I came upon a possible solution. I had long ago renamed my boot camp drive with a "." (".windows" for me) in order to avoid having the partition show up on my desktop. So, I boot into windows and renamed the c: drive without the "." ("windows"), and reboot into os x. The install then went off without a hitch. I hope this will be helpful for others struggling with this issue that may have renamed their boot camp drives in a similar manner.

Hello over there from Germany,

I'd like to add the following variation, maybe someone else is stuck here with a similar setup like my Mac (iMac 5.1, 10.6.8, MacFuse driver installed, Boot Camp)

1. uninstalled MacFuse

2. re-boot into windows

3. re-boot into Mac OS X

4. retried installation

Worked for me 🙂

I understand that ML will not create a Recovery Partition on a RAID 0 (striped) array, but I don't understand why this is so. It is, after all, just another partition. Do you have any idea why this is?

Thanks

http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1464

had the same problem. updated lion recovery and installed with no problem.