My macbook will not cold boot from external usb hard drive. other macs boot fine with this drivel. All I see is greyed circle with slash thru it. Anything to do with the solid state drive?
MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X Mavericks (10.9)
The late 2011 was very close to the early 2011 that came with Snow Leopard. So if you have a clone of 10.6.8 or an install disk from an early 2011 I'm pretty sure the late model will boot from it. That is not true with the newest Mac's. They have different CPU and chipsets tan the model preceding it. I still run SL on my Mini and I can boot my MBP from a clone of it.
OGELTHORPE wrote:
LowLuster wrote:
If you have a Clone of the internal drive on an external I'm pretty sure the computer will boot from it. No new model Mac can boot from an External drive that has an Older version of OS X on it or even the same version of OS X made on an older Mac. All new Mac models have a special build of the current OS X version that contains the proper driver package for the newer hardware. No other version of OS X has that driver package for the new hardware not even the same version of OS X made from an Older Mac computer.
That cannot be true. I successfully installed Snow Leopard on a late 2011 MBP from a Snow Leopard OSX created on a 2010 MBP.
There may be a dependency based on the given OSX version.
Ciao.
Doesn't matter what flavor of Mavericks you have. If it wasn't originally on one of the newest Mac's it won't boot the newest Mac's. Apple puts a SPECIAL BUILD together that is used on the newest Mac's that contains all the proper drivers for the new hardware. No other build has those. Yes is should change with the 10.9.1 update.
coreworksnet wrote:
To re-iterate my comment since it keeps coming up; the external drive has the latest version of Mavericks installed; at the time of this writing, that is 10.9 (no further suffix). I'm hoping the 10.9.1 update fixes the issue (as noted by nbar above).
I suggest that you reread my comments carefully. There are significant differences between a 2010 MBP and a 2011 MBP and a little research on your part should confirm that.
You may be running the risk of making statements based on untested assumptions.
Ciao.
Just installed the hot-off-the-presses 10.9.1 on both my MBP and my external emergency drive (while it was booted via an older MacBook Pro); nope, the 10.9.1 update does not appear to solve the "cannot boot from external" issue with the MacBook Pro Retina (late 2013) models.
Can confirm that on my 15'' late 2013 as well. Since there is an Mavericks installer package available via recovery or internet recovery for these machines, there may be a way to fetch it and subsequently install it on an EHD, if needed. I would google this method as a possible solution.
Additionaly, whereas with my other Macs I could boot from a clone, I also cannot boot from the clone of this machine. So I would say it's more an issue of externals than any missing driver.
That is because you had 10.6.8 on the 2010 and probably did the upgrade to 10.6.8 with the Combo updater.
The Combo updater contains all driver for all Mac's that version of OS X will work on.
OGELTHORPE wrote:
I suggest that you reread my comments carefully. There are significant differences between a 2010 MBP and a 2011 MBP and a little research on your part should confirm that.
You may be running the risk of making statements based on untested assumptions.
Ciao.
Did you do the 10.9.1 update with the Combo Update or from Software Update?
Try downloading the Combo updater and run that.
Also is the external you are using a USB 3 type?
coreworksnet wrote:
Just installed the hot-off-the-presses 10.9.1 on both my MBP and my external emergency drive (while it was booted via an older MacBook Pro); nope, the 10.9.1 update does not appear to solve the "cannot boot from external" issue with the MacBook Pro Retina (late 2013) models.
The external is indeed USB3. FWIW, it has been used to boot a multitude of other Macs, including the just-updated-in-September iMacs. The only Mac I can't get it to boot is the Late 2013 MBP Retina.
I did the Software Update version; wasn't aware the Combo had been posted. Thanks for the reminder. I'll try that and post results.
There is no combo update for Mavericks because there is only one incremental update thus far.
Whoops. Well, that settles that for the time being.
Well there is 2 updates. One for 2013 models and one for the restr of us. I'm downloading the one for 2013 models. It is around 100MBs larger.
The Combo update usually contained all drivers for all Mac computers that version of OS X would run on. Maybe Apple has done away with that also.
Download is finished. Now I'm going to run it. Guess what, I got a This Software is not supported on your system. I'm running a late 2011.
"Guess what, I got a This Software is not supported on your system. I'm running a late 2011."
Downloading from the App Store, or from Apple's website? On Apple's website I see both 10.9.1 updates as well...one for Late 2013 rMBP's, the other for all other models running Mavericks.
There are other posts about not being able to boot any version of OS X from a USB 3 external. Not sure if it is a Mac problem, an external problem or a combo of both.
Try putting that same clone on a USB 2 external and see if it boots.
coreworksnet wrote:
The external is indeed USB3. FWIW, it has been used to boot a multitude of other Macs, including the just-updated-in-September iMacs. The only Mac I can't get it to boot is the Late 2013 MBP Retina.
I did the Software Update version; wasn't aware the Combo had been posted. Thanks for the reminder. I'll try that and post results.
Download site. I never do OS updates from Software Update.
Late 2013 13 inch macbook pro will not boot from bootable external hard drive
