...It doesn't want to go.
1. When the SSD was in the computer, I tried to install OSX on it. The disk wouldn't show up in the Disk Utility.
2. I plugged the SSD into a USB enclosure. Plugged it into a Win7 machine and formatted it in FAT32 with drive number Z. Win7 machine can see the disk.
3. Put SSD back inside MBP and attempt install. It can see it, and when I try to format it again so I can install OSX on it, it says: "POSIX error: Cannot allocate memory"
4. I try to reformat the SSD through Terminal. No dice.
5. I plug the SSD back into the enclosure and install OSX via USB with no hard drive inside the Mac at all. Installs successfully.
6. Run the OS through USB off that SSD, with no HDD or SSD inside Mac. Works like a dream -- it's how I am posting this now, it seems fast and stable.
7. Put the SSD into the Mac's innards and attempt booting. Screwy behaviour on kernel portion of boot screen: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6CMrIvciz8
- If there is an install DVD in here, it will eventually (5 min or so) load the DVD and attempt to install OSX, where it will not be able to see the SSD inside it, even though it contains a working OS, and not be able to proceed.
- If there is no install DVD in there, it will hang for a while in the grey screen and then kernel panic.
The SSD is a Mushkin Chronos 120 GB Sata III SSD
The Macbook Pro is a mid-2010 Unibody, 2.4 GHz, 4 GB RAM
OSX install disk is 10.6.3
Any help will be much appreciated. This is making me never want to touch a SSD ever again.
~Saren
1. When the SSD was in the computer, I tried to install OSX on it. The disk wouldn't show up in the Disk Utility.
2. I plugged the SSD into a USB enclosure. Plugged it into a Win7 machine and formatted it in FAT32 with drive number Z. Win7 machine can see the disk.
3. Put SSD back inside MBP and attempt install. It can see it, and when I try to format it again so I can install OSX on it, it says: "POSIX error: Cannot allocate memory"
4. I try to reformat the SSD through Terminal. No dice.
5. I plug the SSD back into the enclosure and install OSX via USB with no hard drive inside the Mac at all. Installs successfully.
6. Run the OS through USB off that SSD, with no HDD or SSD inside Mac. Works like a dream -- it's how I am posting this now, it seems fast and stable.
7. Put the SSD into the Mac's innards and attempt booting. Screwy behaviour on kernel portion of boot screen: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6CMrIvciz8
- If there is an install DVD in here, it will eventually (5 min or so) load the DVD and attempt to install OSX, where it will not be able to see the SSD inside it, even though it contains a working OS, and not be able to proceed.
- If there is no install DVD in there, it will hang for a while in the grey screen and then kernel panic.
The SSD is a Mushkin Chronos 120 GB Sata III SSD
The Macbook Pro is a mid-2010 Unibody, 2.4 GHz, 4 GB RAM
OSX install disk is 10.6.3
Any help will be much appreciated. This is making me never want to touch a SSD ever again.
~Saren