Q: Am I missing something installing Mavericks?
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Oct 28, 2013 1:05 PMby Kappy,Firstly, do you have 2 or more GBs of RAM installed?
Secondly, do you have at least 20 GBs free on SSD?
Thirdly, is SSD partitioned GUID and formatted Mac OS Extended, Journaled?
Are you upgrading an OS already on the SSD or did you erase the SSD first? If you have an earlier version of OS X installed it must be 10.6.8 or later to upgrade.
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Oct 28, 2013 1:35 PMby Kappy,Is the drive partitioned GUID? You need to look for that in the status area of Disk Utility for the selected drive.
Otherwise, you should be OK. Just to assure the OS hasn't a problem with the drive name change it from "SSD" to "Mac SSD." I use that name on my system and have not had a problem with it.
Next do the following:
Repair the Hard Drive and Permissions - Mavericks, 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.
Now, try reinstalling Mavericks.
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Oct 28, 2013 2:15 PMby harryajh,thanks once again, tried rebooting several times and can't even get the OSX Utilities screen up now - just goes straight thru to login everytime.
So tried doing a repair from the disk utility with ML which reports quite a few permission problems, so I click the "fix" option but running check again after shows exactly the same problems are apparently still there. Also can't see where to tell if "Is the drive partitioned GUID"
anyway, had enough battling with Apple software again for today, will give it a bash tomorrow evening and see what happens.
cheers
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Oct 29, 2013 10:40 AMby harryajh,here's what mine says but really don't think it'll help-
just about given up, cmd+r refuses to work even though I used it many times when installing and even though app store says i've downloaded maverick, can't find anywhere to start install again.
So i clicked on "featured" link again hoping it would be clever enough to know that it has already been downloaded, nope! starts the humongous, painful download again!!!!!
for whatever reason my laptop will not install mavericks, guess I'm stuck with ML!
thanks for your help anyway mate
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Oct 29, 2013 12:12 PMby harryajh,SSD was brand new and pretty sure I had "fix permissions" checked when I created full backup using SuperDuper
what's odd is "repair disk permissions" in the Disk Utiliy, says it's repared various ones but running again shows them being "repaired' again - doesn't appear to be doing anything!
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Oct 29, 2013 12:17 PMby Kappy,Off hand I'd be concerned if the SSD is not defective. In any case, I would start from scratch with it.
Install or Reinstall Mavericks, Lion/Mountain Lion from Scratch
Be sure you backup your files to an external drive or second internal drive because the following procedure will remove everything from the hard 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.
Erase the hard drive:
1. Select Disk Utility from the main menu and click on the Continue button.
2. After DU loads select your startup volume (usually Macintosh HD) from the
left side list. Click on the Erase tab in the DU main window.
3. Set the format type to Mac OS Extended (Journaled.) Optionally, click on
the Security button and set the Zero Data option to one-pass. Click on
the Erase button and wait until the process has completed.
4. Quit DU and return to the main menu.
Reinstall Lion/Mountain Lion, Mavericks: Select Reinstall Lion/Mountain Lion, Mavericks and click on the Install button.
Note: You will need an active Internet connection. I suggest using Ethernet if possible
because it is three times faster than wireless.
The above should work if you actually have purchased Mavericks. Otherwise, you will need to reinstall Snow Leopard, update it to 10.6.8, then purchase and download Mavericks.
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Oct 29, 2013 1:31 PMby Kappy,Never use SuperDuper on Lion and later. It doesn't know a thing about the Recovery HD. I suggest using only Disk Utility or Carbon Copy Cloner 3.5.3. The former does it automatically. The latter provides an option to create one. These are the only two utilities that should be used when cloning Lion or later (or anything else, for that matter.)
You will need to use CCC to clone the external since you don't have a Recovery HD. Disk Utility will refuse to clone a startup drive. CCC will do the trick.
