Need Help Installing Snow Leopard on SSD (it wont install)

[adarkenigma]

Hello,

After reading lots of thread about it here. i decided to get wintec filemate 96gb ssd.

well now snow leopard refuses to install on it. installation fails and askes me to restart and continue.

it always stops at BSD.pkg i tried 8 times already.
but, i can install snow leopard on my Momentous XT just fine with same dvd.

also, when i try to restore image created with superduper it fails too... tells me wrong memory size. image works fine with HD.

does that mean there is something wrong with card i got? i got it from newegg. should i return the card?

here is log.

Mar 7 19:08:35 localhost OSInstaller[151]: PackageKit: ----- Begin install -----
Mar 7 19:08:35 localhost OSInstaller[151]: PackageKit: request=PKInstallRequest <24 packages, destination=/Volumes/Macintosh>
Mar 7 19:08:35 localhost OSInstaller[151]: PackageKit: packages=(\n "PKLeopardPackage <file://localhost/Volumes/Macintosh/Mac%20OS%20X%20Install%20Data/BaseSystem.pkg>",\n "PKLeopardPackage <file://localhost/Volumes/Macintosh/Mac%20OS%20X%20Install%20Data/Essentials.pkg>",\n "PKLeopardPackage <file://localhost/Volumes/Macintosh/Mac%20OS%20X%20Install%20Data/BootCamp.pkg>",\n "PKLeopardPackage <file://localhost/Volumes/Macintosh/Mac%20OS%20X%20Install%20Data/BSD.pkg>",\n "PKLeopardPackage <file://localhost/Volumes/Macintosh/Mac%20OS%20X%20Install%20Data/iPodSupport.pkg>",\n "PKLeopardPackage <file://localhost/Volumes/Macintosh/Mac%20OS%20X%20Install%20Data/PodcastCapture.pkg>",\n "PKLeopardPackage <file://localhost/Volumes/Macintosh/Mac%20OS%20X%20Install%20Data/JavaTools.pkg>",\n "PKLeopardPackage <file://localhost/Volumes/Macintosh/Mac%20OS%20X%20Install%20Data/AdditionalEssentials.pkg>",\n "PKLeopardPackage <file://localhost/Volumes/Macintosh/Mac%20OS%20X%20Install%20Data/AdditionalSpeechVoices.pkg>",\n "PKLeopardPackage <file://localhost/Volumes/Macintosh/Mac%20OS%20X%20Install%20Data/AsianLanguagesSupport.pkg>",\n "PKLeopardPackage <file://localhost/Volumes/Macintosh/Mac%20OS%20X%20Install%20Data/MediaFiles.pkg>",\n "PKLeopardPackage <file://localhost/Volumes/Macintosh/Mac%20OS%20X%20Install%20Data/MigrationAssistant.pkg>",\n "PKLeopardPackage <file://localhost/Volumes/Macintosh/Mac%20OS%20X%20Install%20Data/Mail.pkg>",\n "PKLeopardPackage <file://localhost/Volumes/Macintosh/Mac%20OS%20X%20Install%20Data/AddressBook.pkg>",\n "PKLeopardPackage <file://localhost/Volumes/Macintosh/Mac%20OS%20X%20Install%20Data/iCal.pkg>",\n "PKLeopardPackage <file://localhost/Volumes/Macintosh/Mac%20OS%20X%20Install%20Data/Automator.pkg>",\n "PKLeopardPackage <file://localhost/Volumes/Macintosh/Mac%20OS%20X%20Install%20Data/DVDPlayer.pkg>",\n "PKLeopardPackage <file://localhost/Volumes/Macintosh/Mac%20OS%20X%20Install%20Data/iTunes.pkg>",\n "PKLeopardPackage <file://Mar 7 19:08:36 localhost OSInstaller[151]: PackageKit: Extracting /Volumes/Macintosh/Mac OS X Install Data/BaseSystem.pkg (destination=/Volumes/Macintosh/.OSInstallSandbox-tmp/Root, uid=0)
Mar 7 19:09:23 localhost OSInstaller[151]: PackageKit: Extracting /Volumes/Macintosh/Mac OS X Install Data/Essentials.pkg (destination=/Volumes/Macintosh/.OSInstallSandbox-tmp/Root, uid=0)
Mar 7 19:10:40 localhost OSInstaller[151]: PackageKit: Extracting /Volumes/Macintosh/Mac OS X Install Data/BootCamp.pkg (destination=/Volumes/Macintosh/.OSInstallSandbox-tmp/Root, uid=0)
Mar 7 19:10:45 localhost OSInstaller[151]: PackageKit: Extracting /Volumes/Macintosh/Mac OS X Install Data/BSD.pkg (destination=/Volumes/Macintosh/.OSInstallSandbox-tmp/Root, uid=0)
Mar 7 19:11:19 localhost OSInstaller[151]: PackageKit: Install Failed: PKG: extracting "com.apple.pkg.BSD"\nError Domain=PKInstallErrorDomain Code=110 UserInfo=0x12ae44a70 "An error occurred while extracting files from the package “BSD.pkg”." Underlying Error=(Error Domain=BOMCopierFatalError Code=0 UserInfo=0x12ca08280 "The operation couldn’t be completed. cpio read error: bad file format") {\n NSFilePath = "/Volumes/Macintosh/.OSInstallSandbox-tmp/Root";\n NSLocalizedDescription = "An error occurred while extracting files from the package \U201cBSD.pkg\U201d.";\n NSURL = "BSD.pkg -- file://localhost/Volumes/Macintosh/Mac%20OS%20X%20Install%20Data/index.product";\n NSUnderlyingError = "Error Domain=BOMCopierFatalError Code=0 UserInfo=0x12ca08280 \"The operation couldn\U2019t be completed. cpio read error: bad file format\"";\n PKInstallPackageIdentifier = "com.apple.pkg.BSD";\n}
Mar 7 19:11:19 localhost OSInstaller[151]: install:didFailWithError:Error Domain=PKInstallErrorDomain Code=110 UserInfo=0x12ae44a70 "An error occurred while extracting files from the package “BSD.pkg”." Underlying Error=(Error Domain=BOMCopierFatalError Code=0 UserInfo=0x12ca08280 "The operation couldn’t be completed. cpio read error: bad file format")
Mar 7 19:11:20 localhost OSInstaller[151]: Install failed: The Installer encountered an error that caused the installation to fail. Contact the software manufacturer for assistance.
Mar 7 19:11:22 localhost OSInstaller[151]: Allowing machine sleep.
Mar 7 19:11:22 localhost OSInstaller[151]: Memory statistics for 'Install Failed' pane:
Mar 7 19:11:22 localhost OSInstaller[151]: Physical Memory Allocation: 694 MB wired, 258 MB trapped, 543 MB active, 860 MB inactive, 5837 MB free, 7240 MB usable, 8192 MB total
Mar 7 19:14:41 localhost Unknown[80]: 2011-03-07 19:14 Mac OS X Installer[151] (CarbonCore.framework) FSEventStreamStart: ERROR: FSEvents_connect() => Unknown service name (1102)

Please help

 

[satcomer]

Did you format this SSD for OS Extended? Just read the blog How to Perform a Clean Install of Snow Leopard OS X 10.6 and see if you can use the Disk Utility to format the SSD and then try the install.

 

[adarkenigma]

yes i did format as Mac OS Extended (Journaled) also, here is my system info

Model Name: MacBook Pro
Model Identifier: MacBookPro5,2
Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo
Processor Speed: 2.66 GHz
Number Of Processors: 1
Total Number Of Cores: 2
L2 Cache: 6 MB
Memory: 8 GB
Bus Speed: 1.07 GHz
Boot ROM Version: MBP52.008E.B05
SMC Version (system): 1.42f4

 

[adarkenigma]

I guess no one have answer to this.

well, i asked newegg for replacement so lets see what happens when i get different one.

 

[pjfan]

Ditto

Hello,

After reading lots of thread about it here. i decided to get wintec filemate 96gb ssd.

well now snow leopard refuses to install on it. installation fails and askes me to restart and continue.

it always stops at BSD.pkg i tried 8 times already.
but, i can install snow leopard on my Momentous XT just fine with same dvd.

also, when i try to restore image created with superduper it fails too... tells me wrong memory size. image works fine with HD.

does that mean there is something wrong with card i got? i got it from newegg. should i return the card?

here is log.



Please help

Same thing is occurring to me... For me, here is what I'm working on:
Mac Mini 2.4 (June '10) and a OWC Mercury Pro 60 GB.

The Intel drive worked flawlessly. Post back... i'll try making this drive external and bootable tonight, and will report back. Support request to OWC sent just recently.

 

[adarkenigma]

Update

Okay so i got replacement from newegg and installation stopped at same point but i finally managed to boot from ssd.

here is what i did

i restored it from backup image
it failed to allocate memory as usual. but at that point i rebooted and it showed up as EFI boot. it booted fine but when i tried to repair permission on disk it gave be B-tree error so i repaired it with DiskWarrior (i tried other utilities TechTool Pro and DriveGenus they both failed to repaire it)

But DiskWarrior did the trick

it repaired the drive

So +1 for diskwarrior on my book

hope this helps