Vustom Posted October 28, 2013 Share Posted October 28, 2013 I used myHack and put Mavericks on it, booted to the USB and deleted my existing HDD data to setup new partitions on GUID (was on mbr) but upon attempting to install Mavericks I get this error: OS X could not be installed on your computer. The Installer encountered an error that caused the installation to fail. I'm using the correct SMBios and DSDT, I had a Mountain Lion 10.8.0 installer on my USB using myHack and that worked for me in the past but I removed that to put Mavericks on it. I got another USB and downloaded Mountain Lion 10.8.5 and tried to installed that, same error occured. I've been at this for days and I have no idea what's causing it - any ideas? System specs - Processor: Intel® Core™2 Duo CPU E8400 @ 3.00GHz (2 CPUs), ~3.0GHz Memory: 3070MB RAM Card name: NVIDIA GeForce GT 240 Motherboard: Asus IPIBL-LB Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/293241-os-x-could-not-be-installed-on-this-computer/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
iFIRE Posted October 28, 2013 Share Posted October 28, 2013 Have you tried delete PlatformSupport.plist in S/L/coreservices. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/293241-os-x-could-not-be-installed-on-this-computer/#findComment-1959707 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vustom Posted October 28, 2013 Author Share Posted October 28, 2013 Nope - should I try that first? I think it's something else though, as I have installed Mountain Lion on this PC before. Edit - I think I'm using either iMac 7,1 or 8,1 in the SMBios, this is supported by ML anyways? I didn't have to use a SMBios when I installed Mountain Lion 10.8.0. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/293241-os-x-could-not-be-installed-on-this-computer/#findComment-1959708 Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamsweeting Posted October 28, 2013 Share Posted October 28, 2013 Need more info to be able to see why it's not happy. What does it {censored} out on when you add a -v bootflag? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/293241-os-x-could-not-be-installed-on-this-computer/#findComment-1959759 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vustom Posted October 28, 2013 Author Share Posted October 28, 2013 I've added -v, but it only shows logs prior to booting to the Installer, after that it just gets stuck at the screenshot I attached and that's it, unless there's a log somewhere? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/293241-os-x-could-not-be-installed-on-this-computer/#findComment-1959779 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vustom Posted October 28, 2013 Author Share Posted October 28, 2013 Are this BIOS settings right? I used a different SMBios and I got passed 13 minutes left, but got the error at 8 minutes left this time.. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/293241-os-x-could-not-be-installed-on-this-computer/#findComment-1959811 Share on other sites More sharing options...
kvonlinee Posted October 28, 2013 Share Posted October 28, 2013 could you check your usb/ hard drive installation have the fakesmc.kext yet? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/293241-os-x-could-not-be-installed-on-this-computer/#findComment-1959926 Share on other sites More sharing options...
joe75 Posted October 28, 2013 Share Posted October 28, 2013 try to rerun the installer again and click Window in menubar and choose to show all logs, maybe you will see where it stops Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/293241-os-x-could-not-be-installed-on-this-computer/#findComment-1959934 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vustom Posted October 28, 2013 Author Share Posted October 28, 2013 could you check your usb/ hard drive installation have the fakesmc.kext yet? I'm using myHack, so FakeSMC is there. try to rerun the installer again and click Window in menubar and choose to show all logs, maybe you will see where it stops Done, I've attached the installer log - can you tell me what's wrong? 10.8.5 - Installer Log 28-Oct-2013.txt Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/293241-os-x-could-not-be-installed-on-this-computer/#findComment-1959970 Share on other sites More sharing options...
joe75 Posted October 28, 2013 Share Posted October 28, 2013 looks like maybe your InstallESD is bad, says it fails opening Essentials.pkg Try to make a new installer by running MyHack again, if that still fails I would download the image again and repeat with Myhack. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/293241-os-x-could-not-be-installed-on-this-computer/#findComment-1959986 Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamsweeting Posted October 28, 2013 Share Posted October 28, 2013 As joe75 says above.... I think you are going to have to re-download the Mavericks Installer App - It looks like the one you downloaded may be corrupt. "An error occurred while extracting files from the package “Essentials.pkg”." UserInfo=0x7fbb2ceb2b60 {NSUnderlyingError=0x7fbb2b09a150 "The operation couldn’t be completed." "An error occurred while extracting files from the package “Essentials.pkg” Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/293241-os-x-could-not-be-installed-on-this-computer/#findComment-1960003 Share on other sites More sharing options...
jasjeet Posted October 28, 2013 Share Posted October 28, 2013 More likely that the USB is corrupt. Try install with myhack or similar program to a different USB. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/293241-os-x-could-not-be-installed-on-this-computer/#findComment-1960109 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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