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Snow Leopard installation KP
by objectwerks inc-2
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I am trying to upgrade my Mac Pro (2008 model) that was running 10.5.8
just fine. Every time I try to install, after 5 or 10 minutes I get the screen turn darker and the "You need to restart your computer..." message in 5 languages. There is no non-Apple hardware installed (well the HD are not the original Apple HD). It has 2 Apple supplied video cards in it. One is the NVidia Quadro 5600 fx and the other an ATI 2600. (Apple replaced an earlier Mac Pro under Apple Care that had some problems and it had 2 Video cards in it so Apple supplied this one with 2). I may try temporarily removing the ATI but it is a royal PITA since the machine is positioned in hard to reach place for the side panel Is there a way to get a better message or run the install in a verbose mode? Chad _______________________________________________ MacOSX-admin mailing list MacOSX-admin@... http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-admin |
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Re: Snow Leopard installation KP
by LuKreme
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On Aug 28, 2009, at 21:54, objectwerks inc <chad
+macosx@...> wrote: > There is no non-Apple hardware installed (well the HD are not the > original Apple HD). It has 2 Apple supplied video cards in it. One > is the NVidia Quadro 5600 fx and the other an ATI 2600. This is almost certainly the source of the issues. Not sure which card is the issue though. _______________________________________________ MacOSX-admin mailing list MacOSX-admin@... http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-admin |
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Re: Snow Leopard installation KP
by objectwerks inc-2
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On Aug 28, 2009, at 10:55 PM, LuKreme wrote: > On Aug 28, 2009, at 21:54, objectwerks inc <chad+macosx@... > > wrote: > >> There is no non-Apple hardware installed (well the HD are not the >> original Apple HD). It has 2 Apple supplied video cards in it. >> One is the NVidia Quadro 5600 fx and the other an ATI 2600. > > This is almost certainly the source of the issues. Not sure which > card is the issue though. I would have tended to agree with you. But it seems to be related to SoftRAID (my system disk and Time Machine disk are SoftRAID volumes and they were not "whole" due to a bad restart -- SL has SoftRAID drivers on disk). I booted the installed with CMD-V for verbose which happens to give verbose KP stack dump as well when it happens and it was AHCI related stuff. So now I reformatted the system disk without SoftRAID and am using a the systems install disk instead of the 10.6 install disk to do a full time machine restore and then will install on to that 10.6 and then after all is hunky dory rebuild the raid stuff. Chad _______________________________________________ MacOSX-admin mailing list MacOSX-admin@... http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-admin |
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Re: Snow Leopard installation KP
by Bill Cheeseman-2
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On Aug 29, 2009, at 1:56 AM, objectwerks inc wrote: > So now I reformatted the system disk without SoftRAID and am using a > the systems install disk instead of the 10.6 install disk to do a > full time machine restore and then will install on to that 10.6 and > then after all is hunky dory rebuild the raid stuff. When I tried the first time to install SL on my recent-model MacPro, the installer would not recognize the startup volume though it did recognize all 6 of my external FireWire drives. I figured it couldn't recognize my startup volume because it is a mirrored RAID array (originally set up using Disk Utility under Leopard). So I restarted from the SL install DVD and it worked perfectly. -- Bill Cheeseman bill@... _______________________________________________ MacOSX-admin mailing list MacOSX-admin@... http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-admin |
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Re: Snow Leopard installation KP
by Mike Friedman-5
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On Aug 28, 2009, at 10:56 PM, objectwerks inc wrote: > > On Aug 28, 2009, at 10:55 PM, LuKreme wrote: > >> On Aug 28, 2009, at 21:54, objectwerks inc <chad+macosx@... >> > wrote: >> >>> There is no non-Apple hardware installed (well the HD are not the >>> original Apple HD). It has 2 Apple supplied video cards in it. >>> One is the NVidia Quadro 5600 fx and the other an ATI 2600. >> >> This is almost certainly the source of the issues. Not sure which >> card is the issue though. > > > I would have tended to agree with you. But it seems to be related > to SoftRAID (my system disk and Time Machine disk are SoftRAID > volumes and they were not "whole" due to a bad restart -- SL has > SoftRAID drivers on disk). > > I booted the installed with CMD-V for verbose which happens to give > verbose KP stack dump as well when it happens and it was AHCI > related stuff. > > So now I reformatted the system disk without SoftRAID and am using a > the systems install disk instead of the 10.6 install disk to do a > full time machine restore and then will install on to that 10.6 and > then after all is hunky dory rebuild the raid stuff. > > Chad > I noticed yesterday that there is a SoftRAID update for Snow Leopard. Have you installed that? ======================= Mike Friedman MGF Consulting Computers without Attitude http://www.mgfconsulting.net 415-823-9990 Instant Message AIM/Yahoo: sfmike64 _______________________________________________ MacOSX-admin mailing list MacOSX-admin@... http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-admin |
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Re: Snow Leopard installation KP
by objectwerks inc-2
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On Aug 30, 2009, at 1:23 PM, Mike Friedman wrote: > > > I noticed yesterday that there is a SoftRAID update for Snow > Leopard. Have you installed that? > There is? I don't see it. The thing they list, 3.6.8, has been out since like Feb. I've been corresponding with the support guy there about it. He was somewhat surprised. Chad _______________________________________________ MacOSX-admin mailing list MacOSX-admin@... http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-admin |
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Re: Snow Leopard installation KP
by Mike Friedman-5
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On Aug 30, 2009, at 4:09 PM, objectwerks inc wrote: > > On Aug 30, 2009, at 1:23 PM, Mike Friedman wrote: > >> >> >> I noticed yesterday that there is a SoftRAID update for Snow >> Leopard. Have you installed that? >> > > > There is? I don't see it. The thing they list, 3.6.8, has been out > since like Feb. > > I've been corresponding with the support guy there about it. He was > somewhat surprised. > > Chad > Sorry, I misread the page. It says that 3.6.8 is compatible with SL but not in 64 bit mode. ======================= Mike Friedman MGF Consulting Computers without Attitude http://www.mgfconsulting.net 415-823-9990 Instant Message AIM/Yahoo: sfmike64 _______________________________________________ MacOSX-admin mailing list MacOSX-admin@... http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-admin |
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