Mountian Lion will not install
I have been trying to install Mountian Lion and the installer program works fine, but when it goes to restart my MacBook Pro just restarts normally without installing Mountian Lion. What am I doing wrong?
I have been trying to install Mountian Lion and the installer program works fine, but when it goes to restart my MacBook Pro just restarts normally without installing Mountian Lion. What am I doing wrong?
Have you checked in Apple menu > About this Mac for the version?
Are you sure you are installing to the correct volume?
Tey installing in Safe Mode and see if the problem still occurs.
Restart holding the "shift" key.
(Expect it to take longer to start this way because it runs a directory check first.)
I checked my version and I am still running 10.7.5. I restarted my computer in Safemode and ran the Mountian lIon installer app. But when my computer restarts after the installer app runs, it immediately starts up again and I am still running 10.7.5. Any other ideas?
That is very odd. I'll ask around and see if anyone has ideas.
Give the details about your mac.
System Information in /Utilities, first page, Hardware, complete without the serial number and hardware UUID.
Where did you get the installer from? Why are you doing the steps you are doing (starting in safe mode and running the installer)?
Log into the App Store using the same Apple ID you used to buy ML and download and install from there.
Frank Caggiano wrote:
Why are you doing the steps you are doing (starting in safe mode and running the installer)?
Because I suggested trying that.đ
Hi All,
FWIW I'm having the exact thing happen on my Mac Pro. Its a 2008 model, 2x quad core 2.8, QuadroFX, 2x HDs in Raid 1 (1 set 3 TB, 1 set 500 GB). I've tried installing on both RAID arrays and it doesn't work for either. Both still set at 10.7.5 in system profiler. Source of the Mountain Lion Mac Update is a DMG downloaded from my school's sofware website.
Ah just saw that đ
Still woudl like to know how the OP originally got the installer
I bought ML through the App store and downloaded the installer that way.
I have a 2009 MBP with a 2.26 Intel Core 2 Duo and 4 GB Ram and a NVIDI Ge Force 9400M 256 MB. Mac OS X Lion 10.7.5 (11G63)
wwalkup wrote:
FWIW I'm having the exact thing happen on my Mac Pro. Its a 2008 model, 2x quad core 2.8, QuadroFX, 2x HDs in Raid 1 (1 set 3 TB, 1 set 500 GB). I've tried installing on both RAID arrays and it doesn't work for either. Both still set at 10.7.5 in system profiler.
I've never tried with a RAID setup, so can't reply.
Source of the Mountain Lion Mac Update is a DMG downloaded from my school's sofware website.
Then, DL it from the MAS and try that. It might be balking because it doesn't match your AppleID info.
So you downloaded and try to installed right off or did you save the installer file before doing the install?
I downloaded it and saved it because i was working on something for work. I tried to install it a couple of hours later that day.
You cannot install on a RAID. But you can clone from any other installation. The reason is because the installer cannot partition a RAID in order to install a Recovery HD.
Have you tried re-downloading Mountain Lion? You will need to remove the installer application from the Applications folder to do this.
As an add-on suggestion:
Repair the Hard Drive and Permissions - Lion/Mountain Lion
Boot to the Recovery HD:
Restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the COMMAND and R keys until the menu screen appears. Alternatively, restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the OPTION key until the boot manager screen appears. Select the Recovery HD and click on the downward pointing arrow button.
Repair
When the recovery menu appears select Disk Utility. After DU loads select your hard drive entry (mfgr.'s ID and drive size) from the the left side list. In the DU status area you will see an entry for the S.M.A.R.T. status of the hard drive. If it does not say "Verified" then the hard drive is failing or failed. (SMART status is not reported on external Firewire or USB drives.) If the drive is "Verified" then select your OS X volume from the list on the left (sub-entry below the drive entry,) click on the First Aid tab, then click on the Repair Disk button. If DU reports any errors that have been fixed, then re-run Repair Disk until no errors are reported. If no errors are reported then click on the Repair Permissions button. When the process is completed, then quit DU and return to the main menu. Select Restart from the Apple menu.
And, if this doesn't get it to install properly consider reinstalling 10.7.5:
Reinstalling Lion/Mountain Lion Without Erasing the Drive
Boot to the Recovery HD: Restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the COMMAND and R keys until the menu screen appears. Alternatively, restart the computer and after the chime press and hold down the OPTION key until the boot manager screen appears. Select the Recovery HD and click on the downward pointing arrow button.
Repair the Hard Drive and Permissions: Upon startup select Disk Utility from the main menu. Repair the Hard Drive and Permissions as follows.
When the recovery menu appears select Disk Utility. After DU loads select your hard drive entry (mfgr.'s ID and drive size) from the the left side list. In the DU status area you will see an entry for the S.M.A.R.T. status of the hard drive. If it does not say "Verified" then the hard drive is failing or failed. (SMART status is not reported on external Firewire or USB drives.) If the drive is "Verified" then select your OS X volume from the list on the left (sub-entry below the drive entry,) click on the First Aid tab, then click on the Repair Disk button. If DU reports any errors that have been fixed, then re-run Repair Disk until no errors are reported. If no errors are reported click on the Repair Permissions button. Wait until the operation completes, then quit DU and return to the main menu.
Reinstall Lion/Mountain Lion: Select Reinstall Lion/Mountain Lion and click on the Continue button.
Note: You will need an active Internet connection. I suggest using Ethernet if possible because it is three times faster than wireless.
Yes your should try the download again to rule out any corruption or other problems with the installer you saved.
As kappy mentioned if the installer you downloaded earlier is in the Applications folder you will need to remove that first so that the MAS store will let you download again.
post back if you still have troubles.
regards
Mountian Lion will not install