Mountain Lion won't boot after restart (SSD problem?)

I also upgraded the firmware to 1.14.1 and it seems to work here as well. Just make sure you read post #3, otherwise the firmware will be overwritten with 1.14, which does not solve the problem. Finally got my OCZ Octane working perfectly in my MacBook Pro.

Thank you for the info.

All working here too, (10.8.1, MacBook pro late 2008 and ocz octane), but i had to upgrade the firmware twice (used a 64 mb USB 1.0 stick to boot), format the drive, take the opportunity to do a clean install, and then use migration assistant to bring all back.

To anyone doing this: be sure to BACKUP first.

Hi

I have the same problem. It's happened on my Macbook Pro 2010 with a Corsair SSD and now on my early 2008 Mac Pro with a Samsung 840 Pro SSD.

I've tried the commands:

/sbin/fsck -fy

/sbin/mount -uw /

rm -f /private/var/db/BootCache.playlist

exit

But when I type exit,it returns 'logout' and stops responding.

The only way I can ever get it back up and running is by re-installing OSX via Recovery Disk, which retians all the data as it was before, but I can't do that every time I re-boot.

I'm guessing it's an issue with my 'elderly' hardware but I would have tought I would be able to run Mountain Lion from an SSD without too much trouble?

Any other thoughts/help would be much appreciated.

Thanks

Update: I installed the firmware update for the OCZ Octane SSD and that fixed the problem. No more boot issues.

http://www.ocztechnology.com/ssd_tools/OCZ_Octane_/

NOTE: Make sure you have a Time Capsule backup before doing a firmware update because it will wipe the drive clean.

Appreciate everyone's responses on here. I was having the same problem with my Intel SSD, and an SSD firmware update fixed the issue. Thanks all!