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

ML forum

https://discussions.apple.com/community/mac_os/os_x_mountain_lion

What I would do - along with save the ML package file ESD somewhere - is leave your drive as is so you can dual boot or go back - and install / format on a 2nd drive.

That was / is July 2011 10.7.0 maybe this is just 10.8.0 but I know tech support articles are unlikely to be posted yet that deal with ML (they didn't seem to be there twice when I checked this AM).

So, I never go for the "upgrade" path, I install, reboot with fresh OS and then use SETUP ASSISTANT.

But people with Lion (and Windows) have gone through okay and Lion Recovery is fine.

Not using an array for the system? sounds like partition table though.

I haven't been able to find a solution or work around

Which of the problems listed in that article applies to your situation (if any).

Perhaps readers can suggest solutions that Apple does not suggest.

Launch the Terminal application in any of the following ways:

☞ Enter the first few letters of its name into a Spotlight search. Select it in the results (it should be at the top.)

☞ In the Finder, select Go ▹ Utilities from the menu bar, or press the key combination shift-command-U. The application is in the folder that opens.

☞ If you’re running OS X 10.7 or later, open LaunchPad. Click Utilities, then Terminal in the page that opens.

Drag or copy — do not type — the following line into the Terminal window, then press return:

diskutil list

Post any lines of output that appear below what you entered — the text, please, not a screenshot.

If any personal information appears in the output, edit before posting, but don’t remove the context.

Why are your 3TB drives limited to 2.2TB each? Do you have the Apple RAID card installed?

As stated in the article you linked to in your original post, you can't create a recovery partition on a RAID volume.

I haven't tested your configuration, nor have I seen any support articles that deal with it. You were, of course, able to install 10.7 on a software RAID volume, without a recovery partition. I don't know what the official line is on installing 10.8. Maybe if you create the RAID in 10.8 it will work. You'd have to do your own testing.

It's saying the same thing to me. I had no problems at all when I upgraded this machine (mid-2009 MBP) from Snow Leopard to Lion. The only meaningful thing I have added is a Time Capsule with Time Machine linked to it, etc. From Terminal per the above:

/dev/disk0

#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER

0: GUID_partition_scheme *250.1 GB disk0

1: EFI 209.7 MB disk0s1

2: Apple_HFS Macintosh HD 210.9 GB disk0s2

3: Apple_Boot Recovery HD 650.0 MB disk0s3

4: Microsoft Basic Data BOOTCAMP 38.3 GB disk0s4

I'm embarassed to admit I have no idea what a RAID volume is, but I have no reason to believe that I have one.

UberMitch-

The article linked in the original post may explain why you cannot install.

http://www.apple.com/support/no-recovery

The disk has a non-standard Boot Camp partition setup, where further partitioning was performed after running Boot Camp Assistant, or the configuration that Boot Camp Assistant created was manually modified

I'll see what I can do; I assume figure out how to backup my bootcamp and then just delete the thing and figure out how to revive it after ML install

I have the same setup and the same problem.

/dev/disk0

#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER

0: GUID_partition_scheme *251.0 GB disk0

1: EFI 209.7 MB disk0s1

2: Apple_HFS Macintosh HD 214.2 GB disk0s2

3: Apple_Boot Recovery HD 650.0 MB disk0s3

4: Microsoft Basic Data BootCamp 35.9 GB disk0s4

and my bootcamp partition is completely stock, though I have never booted it native, I use it only with VMWare Fusion. I saw no ohter aplicaable notes in the referenced support page.

SUCCESS!!

I'm not sure what the issue was, or exactly how it was fixed, but here is what I did (after getting the recovery HD error several times during install attempts)

1) boot with cmd-R to boot into the reocvery partition

2) from the recovery partition ran disk utils and verified the disk (no repair), all was well

3) boot directly to my bootcamp partition (I had only used VMWare Fusion before), that worked fine

4) boot with option to get the disk list and set back to the Mac HD and boot that, again all is fine.

Re-ran the mountain lion install app, and this time it worked. I think it might be that booting windows natively does some partition tweaking that VMWare does not do???? I had never booted the recover HD before either, but I doubt that did anything. I don't know for sure, but Mountain Lion is now up and running fine.