pokenguyen Posted November 14, 2013 Share Posted November 14, 2013 Hi guys, I'm back again! All working well on ML, but of course, being the kind of person that I am, I'm now thinking of going for Mavericks! (sorry) I've created my Mav USB installer which is working fine, but when I get to the install OSX piece, it tells me that OSX can't be installed on the existing OSX partition? What am I missing? It feels like it's something obvious that I'm going to kick myself over! I'm hoping to install it there to do an "upgrade", rather than having to reinstall all of my programs. I know I'll have to sort out kexts, etc. as per the ML install but I want to avoid all the application installs... Thanks again! If you don't mind, reformatting the partition can help. EDIT: Try this http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3926 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wheeliemonster Posted November 14, 2013 Author Share Posted November 14, 2013 I presume this won't cause data loss (resizing the partition?) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pokenguyen Posted November 14, 2013 Share Posted November 14, 2013 I presume this won't cause data loss (resizing the partition?) Yes, otherwise they just say delete and create new partition. But you should backup your current partition in external hdd. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wheeliemonster Posted November 14, 2013 Author Share Posted November 14, 2013 (edited) Is there a quick way to restore apps from backup once I've created a new partition and installed Mavericks? (Should I use TM?) Edited November 14, 2013 by wheeliemonster Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pokenguyen Posted November 14, 2013 Share Posted November 14, 2013 Is there a quick way to restore apps from backup once I've created a new partition and installed Mavericks? (Should I use TM?) There is option to migrate from TM after install. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wheeliemonster Posted November 14, 2013 Author Share Posted November 14, 2013 Thanks again dude. I'll get on and try to migrate shortly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wheeliemonster Posted November 14, 2013 Author Share Posted November 14, 2013 OK, well that didn't go so well! I didn't have a USB HDD available, so I created an HFS partition on the hard drive and made a TM backup to it. I then booted to Mav USB and tried to Erase the existing OSX partition so I could install Mav to it. However, I got an error "Mediakit reports not enough space on device" so Erase wouldn't work. So I booted to a Linux live CD and ran gparted to try to delete/recreate the HFS partition so I could install OSX. No joy anywhere. No matter what I do with the partition, Mav installer will not allow me to install to this partition. Any ideas? I still have my TM backup, but no longer have an OSX install... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pokenguyen Posted November 14, 2013 Share Posted November 14, 2013 After you create HFS+ partition with Gparted, what does installer say about your drive? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wheeliemonster Posted November 14, 2013 Author Share Posted November 14, 2013 Still says same - OS X cannot start up from this disk (I think that's it. Will confirm exact message shortly) EDIT: Confirmed, that's the message. EDIT2: I think I had a similar issue when starting out with ML after creating the partition with gparted, because it doesn't enable journaling, so I did that in Disk Util and it solved it, but it hasn't fixed it this time... Should I use HFS+ in gparted or HFS? EDIT3: From reading the manpages of gdisk (http://www.rodsbooks.com/gdisk/gdisk.html), there is a statement about some OSes leaving a 128MiB space after their partitions to allow for disk utilities to work. Maybe that's the problem. I'll re-create my OSX partition with a gap after it, to see if Disk Util will then be able to erase it. (can't hurt to try!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pokenguyen Posted November 14, 2013 Share Posted November 14, 2013 Nice, remember that if it still does not work, you can still boot to installer, then choose Time Machine and restore your old ML. Relieve to try any method. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wheeliemonster Posted November 14, 2013 Author Share Posted November 14, 2013 Unfortunately, that didn't work. Still the installer says it cannot start up from this disk. I tried deleting the gparted-created partition and creating a new one using DIsk Utility. It deletes the partition OK, but then seems to hang on creating the new partition? Can't restore from TM as it can't erase the target partition.Installer log says missing CoreServices. Could it be my smbios? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pokenguyen Posted November 14, 2013 Share Posted November 14, 2013 How did you create this Installer USB? EDIT: Go to windows and use crystal disk info to see your hard drive status. It may be because the harddrive is failed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wheeliemonster Posted November 14, 2013 Author Share Posted November 14, 2013 I had the thought about the installer. I'm currently copying the Mav Install.app from my TM backup so I can mount the Base System DMG and check the packages... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wheeliemonster Posted November 15, 2013 Author Share Posted November 15, 2013 Got it sorted. OSX installer was looking for a 200Mb (exactly 200Mb) EFI partition. My Clover partition was only 100Mb so it didn't like it. I created a new 200Mb EFI partition, copied all the Clover/Windows boot files in and now OSX let's me install. I also made sure that there was 128Mb unallocated space after my OSX partition. Not sure if that was required but better to be safe. Only problem now is that I have Mavs installed but it won't boot - I get the dreaded "still waiting for root device". Grrrrr. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wheeliemonster Posted November 15, 2013 Author Share Posted November 15, 2013 On the plus side, my Broadcom WLAN card arrived today so hopefully will get internal WiFi on OSX working soon! (If I can boot that is...! ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pokenguyen Posted November 15, 2013 Share Posted November 15, 2013 Copy some SATA kexts to clover/kexts: http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/278075-about-still-waiting-for-root-device/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wheeliemonster Posted November 15, 2013 Author Share Posted November 15, 2013 I've tried various kexts - LegacyAhciintelichxx, legacyahcijmicron and so on but still no joy. You don't by chance have any kexts you could share that might work? PS. I'm not sure whether the kexts are being used though. I'm having to copy them into the EFI partition using Windows so I don't know if they're "installed" correctly. Can I use any of the kext installers or another method when booting via the OSX installer? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pokenguyen Posted November 15, 2013 Share Posted November 15, 2013 I've tried various kexts - LegacyAhciintelichxx, legacyahcijmicron and so on but still no joy. You don't by chance have any kexts you could share that might work? PS. I'm not sure whether the kexts are being used though. I'm having to copy them into the EFI partition using Windows so I don't know if they're "installed" correctly. Can I use any of the kext installers or another method when booting via the OSX installer? You can use Linux to copy. Or try using myHack Installer usb to boot to your Mavericks first. Boot with -f bootflag. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wheeliemonster Posted November 16, 2013 Author Share Posted November 16, 2013 Still same. Tried loads of kexts using Clover kext injection but none make any difference. Still not sure they're loading. MyHack won't boot it either. With -x -f or combinations. Actually stuck now! Might try a reinstall... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wheeliemonster Posted November 17, 2013 Author Share Posted November 17, 2013 Yeah - really struggled with Mavericks. It would not boot no matter what I did with it. I tried kexts everywhere but nothing worked. I tried booting from Chameleon but all I could get was "still waiting for root device" Have managed to restore from my TM backup so am back to ML (but now with a nicely working Broadcom WLAN card!) Will try again for Mavericks soon. Maybe I can backup a few kexts from ML, now that I'm back up and running and see if I can get it to boot. Thanks for your help... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pokenguyen Posted November 18, 2013 Share Posted November 18, 2013 Yeah - really struggled with Mavericks. It would not boot no matter what I did with it. I tried kexts everywhere but nothing worked. I tried booting from Chameleon but all I could get was "still waiting for root device" Have managed to restore from my TM backup so am back to ML (but now with a nicely working Broadcom WLAN card!) Will try again for Mavericks soon. Maybe I can backup a few kexts from ML, now that I'm back up and running and see if I can get it to boot. Thanks for your help... It's strange that it only happens when you use Mavericks, not Mountain Lion. Check if you have any AHCI, SATA drivers in S/L/E (you can filter for non-Apple kexts in System Information - Extensions). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wheeliemonster Posted November 18, 2013 Author Share Posted November 18, 2013 Excuse my ignorance but I can't find a way to filter the list for non-apple kexts? Anyway - I spotted something - during boot it gives the UUID of the device it's trying to boot from and that appears to be the wrong UUID. It looks like it's trying to boot from my TM partition. Is there a way to specify the UUID of the boot volume in the boot loader? I also checked the info.plist in the bootable Mavericks USB S/L/E/AppleAHCIPort.kext and my device ID for the SATA controller is there, so I don't think it's a kext issue to be honest. I do think it's the bootloader detecting the wrong 'root' volume ID to boot from. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zprood Posted April 24, 2014 Share Posted April 24, 2014 Hi all, i just install mavericks on Hp 5330m, currently i'm using chameleon cause the sleep/wake with UEFI mode, and i wonder that anyone solves the brightness issue ? i checked the dsdt, the _BCL control method is odd, there is no ten or sixteen steps under it but a register "BCL ". After google some websites, it seems that no one has a solution. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pokenguyen Posted April 24, 2014 Share Posted April 24, 2014 Hi all, i just install mavericks on Hp 5330m, currently i'm using chameleon cause the sleep/wake with UEFI mode, and i wonder that anyone solves the brightness issue ? i checked the dsdt, the _BCL control method is odd, there is no ten or sixteen steps under it but a register "BCL ". After google some websites, it seems that no one has a solution. Patch your DSDT by using Probook Installer (Chameleon version). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zprood Posted April 24, 2014 Share Posted April 24, 2014 Patch your DSDT by using Probook Installer (Chameleon version). i know that installer, but it supports 43xx not 5530m, basically the dsdt isn't as same like 43xx. Do u have a good result with it ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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