Any problem installing OS Mavericks

Nicoladie...

If I understand you correctly, you are suggesting...

1. Boot SL.

2. Run SL Disk Utility. Create two new partitions on the existing disk. So it will end up with 6 partitions (GPT).

3. Put Recovery partition in one of these two new partitions using the Recovery assistant (assuming it can be run from the SL or try a external USB).

4. Now install Mavericks on the second newly created partition.

5. Now you may have a dual boot of SL/Mavericks, if the system boots at all.

Remember BOOTCAMP restrictions. BOOTcamped disks can have only three partitions, OSX, Bootcamp and Recovery.

How do you propose this iMac will work/boot?

Reza wants to probably upgrade to Mavericks, not dual-boot SL/Mavericks.

Helo!

Sory for late responding. Ok here is the output for fdisk:

Last login: Sat Nov 23 03:38:41 on console

Reza-Putras-iMac:~ rezaputra$ fdisk

usage: fdisk [-ieu] [-f mbrboot] [-c cyl -h head -s sect] [-S size] [-r] [-a style] disk

-i: initialize disk with new MBR

-u: update MBR code, preserve partition table

-e: edit MBRs on disk interactively

-f: specify non-standard MBR template

-chs: specify disk geometry

-S: specify disk size

-r: read partition specs from stdin (implies -i)

-a: auto-partition with the given style

-d: dump partition table

-y: don't ask any questions

-t: test if disk is partitioned

`disk' is of the form /dev/rdisk0.

auto-partition styles:

boothfs 8Mb boot plus HFS+ root partition (default)

bootufs 8Mb boot plus UFS root partition

hfs Entire disk as one HFS+ partition

ufs Entire disk as one UFS partition

dos Entire disk as one DOS partition

raid Entire disk as one 0xAC partition

Reza-Putras-iMac:~ rezaputra$

This is the output for gpt

Last login: Sat Nov 23 06:33:28 on ttys000

Reza-Putras-iMac:~ rezaputra$ gpt

usage: gpt [-rv] [-p nparts] command [options] device ...

Reza-Putras-iMac:~ rezaputra$

Do you have another option than i must delete my BOOTCAMP partition?

Like defrag my harddisk?

Because i have a little problem on my DVD drive (u know iMac have **** dvd drive) so i have complicated way to install windows.

Thanks!

Please do not delete any partitions, till other options are exhausted. You may want to also download the recovery assistant (as Nicoladie suggests) to a USB stick, in case that becomes a viable scenario. If I can find a test machine, I would like to duplicate your configuration and see if it can be upgraded from SL to Mavericks.

Apologies for not being clear, can you run the following commands...

sudo gpt -vv show /dev/rdisk0

sudo fdisk /dev/rdisk0

What version of Bootcamp are you running?

You can simply try using Disk Utility to see if it allows you to create a recovery partition under Snow Leopard. It really depends on the version of Disk Utility, so you have to try it. I don't have Snow Leopard any more, so I cannot tell you.

The basic idea is that Snow Leopard requires an external disk to install, but Lion and later doesn't need an external disk to install. It uses the recovery partition to install.

The same for fixing your disk if anything goes wrong. Snow Leopard requires you to use an external disk to fix your broken disk. But Lion and later allows you to use the recovery disk partition to fix it, eliminating the cumbersome step of finding an external disk to fix it or install or reinstall OSX.

As long as you can create a recovery partition on your disk, I think you can install Maverick that way.

If you don't want to install Maverick from the internal recovery disk partition, you can install it using an external disk (just like Snow Leopard). Just follow these instructions:

https://support.apple.com/kb/ht5911

From http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4718 (it has a reference to HT5911 as well...)

• Your storage device must have at least 13 GB available (after formatting) to install OS X Lion or later and a Recovery partition.
• These steps erase and reformat the storage device. This article instructs you on setting up a storage device to use the GUID partition scheme and the Mac OS Extended (Journaled) format, which are required to install OS X and a Recovery partition on your external storage device. You should back up any important files that are on the device to a different drive.
• This procedure installs a version of OS X that is compatible with the Mac it was created with. Using this OS X system with a different Mac model may produce unpredictable results.
• Your computer's serial number is sent to Apple as part of this process to help authenticate your request to download and install OS X Lion.

Here is the output for

sudo gpt -vv show /dev/rdisk0

sudo fdisk /dev/rdisk0

Last login: Sat Nov 23 22:22:00 on console

Reza-Putras-iMac:~ rezaputra$ sudo gpt -vv show /dev/rdisk0

Password:

Sorry, try again.

Password:

gpt show: unable to open device '/dev/rdisk0': No such file or directory

Reza-Putras-iMac:~ rezaputra$ sudo gpt -vv show /dev/rdisk0

gpt show: unable to open device '/dev/rdisk0': No such file or directory

Reza-Putras-iMac:~ rezaputra$ 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 0 0 2 - 25 127 14 [ 1 - 409639] <Unknown ID>

2: AF 25 127 15 - 1023 3 21 [ 409640 - 818359360] HFS+

*3: 07 1023 98 61 - 1023 80 15 [ 819032064 - 157741056] HPFS/QNX/AUX

4: 00 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 [ 0 - 0] unused

Reza-Putras-iMac:~ rezaputra$

my Bootcamp is 3.0.4 version

Is disk defrag will usefull for this problem?

You can run command df -h to check for free space. Defragementation on the OS X side is typically not required, but an erase/install can help. Windows side may need it, but as yet with your fdisk output I cannot see your bootcamp side. Seeing your GPT table would help.

There is a GNU utility gdisk (- http://sourceforge.net/projects/gptfdisk/?source=dlp ) that you can try. Once you install it, you can run the following command. Sample output is attached.

sudo gdisk -l /dev/rdisk0

WARNING: Improper use of the sudo command could lead to data loss

or the deletion of important system files. Please double-check your

typing when using sudo. Type "man sudo" for more information.

To proceed, enter your password, or type Ctrl-C to abort.

Password:

GPT fdisk (gdisk) version 0.8.8

Warning: Devices opened with shared lock will not have their

partition table automatically reloaded!

Partition table scan:

MBR: hybrid

BSD: not present

APM: not present

GPT: present

Found valid GPT with hybrid MBR; using GPT.

Disk /dev/rdisk0: 1465149168 sectors, 698.6 GiB

Logical sector size: 512 bytes

Disk identifier (GUID): 3B00A07E-2489-49E2-8A2E-13143B3F0933

Partition table holds up to 128 entries

First usable sector is 34, last usable sector is 1465149134

Partitions will be aligned on 8-sector boundaries

Total free space is 3341 sectors (1.6 MiB)

Number Start (sector) End (sector) Size Code Name

1 40 409639 200.0 MiB EF00 EFI System Partition

2 409640 963879591 459.4 GiB AF00 Customer

3 963879592 965149127 619.9 MiB AB00 Recovery HD

4 965150720 1465147391 238.4 GiB 0700 BOOTCAMP

I will try using recovery assistant from my office iMac. So i just put my flashdisk (Recovery Disk) and installing maverick?

Ok here is the output:

Last login: Sun Nov 24 22:50:11 on console

Reza-Putras-iMac:~ rezaputra$ df -h

Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on

/dev/disk0s2 390Gi 355Gi 35Gi 92% /

devfs 112Ki 112Ki 0Bi 100% /dev

map -hosts 0Bi 0Bi 0Bi 100% /net

map auto_home 0Bi 0Bi 0Bi 100% /home

/dev/disk0s3 75Gi 68Gi 7.6Gi 90% /Volumes/BOOTCAMP

/dev/disk2s1 7.5Gi 1.1Gi 6.3Gi 16% /Volumes/Backup

/dev/disk1s1 74Gi 46Gi 28Gi 63% /Volumes/REZA IPOD

Reza-Putras-iMac:~ rezaputra$ sudo gdisk -l /dev/rdisk0

Password:

GPT fdisk (gdisk) version 0.8.8

Warning: Devices opened with shared lock will not have their

partition table automatically reloaded!

Partition table scan:

MBR: hybrid

BSD: not present

APM: not present

GPT: present

Found valid GPT with hybrid MBR; using GPT.

Disk /dev/rdisk0: 976773168 sectors, 465.8 GiB

Logical sector size: 512 bytes

Disk identifier (GUID): 00002BB2-5789-0000-CB0A-0000E32D0000

Partition table holds up to 128 entries

First usable sector is 34, last usable sector is 976773134

Partitions will be aligned on 8-sector boundaries

Total free space is 263085 sectors (128.5 MiB)

Number Start (sector) End (sector) Size Code Name

1 40 409639 200.0 MiB EF00 EFI system partition

2 409640 818768999 390.2 GiB AF00 Customer

3 819032064 976773119 75.2 GiB 0700 BOOTCAMP

Reza-Putras-iMac:~ rezaputra$

I dont have any idea for this. I see that many reccomendation to use Clean install? Is that another way? like Fresh install... i will try using my 8GB flashdisk for recovery disk and installing maverick.

Is my Bootcamp partition is the main problem for this installation?

Yes, that's the simplest way to install it

Ok i will try. Thanks for help! 🙂

No, Bootcamp is not your problem. You have 35GB on disk0s2. Mavericks is unable to shrink /dev/disk0s2 to build you a Recovery partition.

If you try to shrink your OS X (SL - /dev/disk0s2 ) partition by say 5GB in Disk Utility, does it give you an error?

This is partially your issue... "Total free space is 263085 sectors (128.5 MiB)"

I have try to make recovery disk from another iMac and i put it on my iMac so my iMac having recovery disk now. but... it cant work for maverick install and still same: cannot making recovery disk