Any problem installing OS Mavericks

No it doesn't.

Pete

No, it doesn't work. I figured out it's the problem with Java. The java update was corrupted. Since I guess AppStore and Safari use java, it failed royally. It doesn't seem there is a way to do a full upgrade. The upgrade is delta update so if it is corrupted, there is no way to repair the corrupted java file. I can't even use AppStore to re-install Java.

I have had Java turned off for over a year and have had full access to the App Store and Safari.

Pete

When the blue bar got to the end, and it said "less than 1 minute remaining" ... Then it just sat there for a good 15 minutes! I was beginning to think something had gone wrong, and was tempted to force a restart - but fearing the consequences of doing that I just kept waiting and eventually it finished.

"OS X could not be installed on your computer

The OS X upgrade couldn't be started because the disk Macintosh HD is damaged and can't be repaired. After your computer restarts, back up your data, erase your disk, and try installing again.

Click Restart to restart your computer and try installing again."

This

biologyoracle wrote:

When the blue bar got to the end, and it said "less than 1 minute remaining" ... Then it just sat there for a good 15 minutes! I was beginning to think something had gone wrong, and was tempted to force a restart - but fearing the consequences of doing that I just kept waiting and eventually it finished.

Yes, for some reason every install since and including Snow Leopard have done this. If you select Show Process, you will see that it is still installing data evn while saying 1 minute left. Patience is a virtue, luckily.

Cheers

Pete

I finally fixed the problem after I reinstalled Maverick three times in recovery mode. The third time finally fixed the corrupted files.

If the Install Mavericks application resides on an EXTERNAL drive (in my case a Firewire drive), the installation is stuck on the Boot screen with the Apple logo and the wheel (probably because FW drivers are not loaded yet). If the application is copied to an internal drive, it works correctly. I have upgraded to Mavericks on a DIY Fusion drive which also has Bootcamp. No issues so far.

Flip4Mac (and some other plugins may not work or may require upgrades - http://arstechnica.com/civis/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=1222069 )

The same FW drives works properly when connected after the Mavericks upgrade.

I have 10.6.8 (Snow Leopard) after i downloaded the Maverick installer and starting the installation it's apear the message, it said "Cannot continue the installation, because cannot making recovery disk" and restart back to my normal computer. My computer is iMac with snow leopard OS, 4GB RAM, 500GB HDD, 3.06 ghz intel core 2 duo, nVidia Geforce 9400m. Please help me!

Thanks!

Reza...

1. http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5842

2. From OSx Terminal -> please post the output of command diskutil list.

Ok

1. my computer is iMac 21.5 inch late 2013 with 10.6.8 osx (Snow leopard)

2. here is the output from Terminal

Last login: Fri Nov 22 06:15:13 on ttys000

Reza-Putras-iMac:~ rezaputra$ 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 419.0 GB disk0s2

3: Microsoft Basic Data BOOTCAMP 80.8 GB disk0s3

/dev/disk1

#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER

0: FDisk_partition_scheme *79.8 GB disk1

1: DOS_FAT_32 REZA IPOD 79.8 GB disk1s1

Reza-Putras-iMac:~ rezaputra$

You can create the recovery disk partition for Snow Leopard manually (the recovery disk partition is automatically created for Lion, Mountain Lion and Maverick).

Follow this instruction:

https://support.apple.com/kb/ht4848

On a Macmini which originally had ML (and an existing Recovery HD partition...)

/dev/disk0

#: TYPE NAME SIZE IDENTIFIER

0: GUID_partition_scheme *500.1 GB disk0

1: EFI EFI 209.7 MB disk0s1

2: Apple_HFS Macintosh HD 371.2 GB disk0s2

3: Apple_Boot Recovery HD 650.0 MB disk0s3

4: Microsoft Basic Data BOOTCAMP 128.0 GB disk0s4

I upgraded to Mavericks without issues.

sudo gpt -vv show /dev/rdisk0

gpt show: /dev/rdisk0: mediasize=500107862016; sectorsize=512; blocks=976773168

gpt show: /dev/rdisk0: Suspicious MBR at sector 0

gpt show: /dev/rdisk0: Pri GPT at sector 1

gpt show: /dev/rdisk0: Sec GPT at sector 976773167

start size index contents

0 1 MBR

1 1 Pri GPT header

2 32 Pri GPT table

34 6

40 409600 1 GPT part - C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B

409640 725093952 2 GPT part - 48465300-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC

725503592 1269536 3 GPT part - 426F6F74-0000-11AA-AA11-00306543ECAC

726773128 632

726773760 249999360 4 GPT part - EBD0A0A2-B9E5-4433-87C0-68B6B72699C7

976773120 15

976773135 32 Sec GPT table

976773167 1 Sec GPT header

sudo fdisk /dev/rdisk0

Disk: /dev/rdisk0 geometry: 60801/255/63 [976773168 sectors]

Signature: 0xAA55

Starting Ending

#: id cyl hd sec - cyl hd sec [ start - size]

------------------------------------------------------------------------

1: EE 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [ 1 - 409639] <Unknown ID>

2: AF 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [ 409640 - 725093952] HFS+

3: AB 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [ 725503592 - 1269536] Darwin Boot

*4: 07 1023 254 63 - 1023 254 63 [ 726773760 - 249999360] HPFS/QNX/AUX

You may be running into an issue because Mavericks may not be able to deal with a Bootcamp partition AND a missing Recovery HD (SL does not have one).

Ignoring your iPod, can you run the two commands (fdisk and gpt) and post the output here?

Is there a possibility that you can

1. Backup your SL.

2. Delete the BOOTCAMP partition (after you have a good backup of your Windows installation)

3. Install Mavericks with a single OS X partition

4. Re-install Windows.

Nicoladie...

From your link...

System requirements

• A Mac running OS X Lion, Mountain Lion or Mavericks with an existing Recovery System on its startup volume.
• An external USB hard drive or thumb drive with at least 1GB of free space

Are you certain SL will let you create a Recovery partition? I do not have SL handy to test it.

Yes, the recovery disk partition was introduced after Snow Leopard to allow you to install/recover without using an external DVD disk or thumb-drive.

It doesn't mean that you cannot add the recovery disk partition in Snow Leopard without reformating it.

That is, in Snow Leopard, you can only install OSX using an external disk. But you are not installing Snow Leopard any more. That is why when you install OSX later than Snow Leopard, you can use the recovery disk partition within your internal drive to install without needing an external disk.

Because the recovery disk partition is not in your Snow Leopard volume, you have to create it manually. Then you can install Maverick using the newly created disk partition to install it.