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

Hey, I just installed ML on my OCZ Octane SSD, everything went ok, finally the setup assistant requested reboot which is what I did. However, it got stuck while rebooting and now I can only see flashing question mark icon and ML won't boot at all. The only thing I can do is to boot up in safe mode. I guess that the problem is my SSD (indilinx controller) which ML can't handle (it ran on Lion just fine). Does anyone have the same experience? Any clue how to resolve this? Thank you.

MacBook Pro, OS X Mountain Lion

Posted on Jul 25, 2012 10:38 PM

50 replies

Sep 16, 2012 12:55 PM in response to YannisPyrros

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.

Xanano

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Sep 16, 2012 3:08 PM in response to YannisPyrros

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.

Nov 19, 2012 9:08 AM in response to Torsten Stoll

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

Feb 1, 2013 10:06 PM in response to whitewolfdesign

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.

Sep 9, 2013 9:53 AM in response to whitewolfdesign

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!

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