Hi all, first time posting. Been having an issue, and I've searched threads with related issues, and tried their solutions. But nothing seems to work, so now I'm posting.
I have a 2009 8 core 2.26ghz processors. Running 26 gig ram, and I've upgraded the video card to a quadro 4000 for Mac. Came installed with Snow Leopard, and I've upgraded to Lion.
About a year ago, I installed a 256gig SSD drive, that I purchased from OWC. I closed my main drive onto the SSD, and swapped the drives out. I then reformatted my old drive, and used that for time machine. That drives is in an external enclosure, connected via an esat card and cable. Internally I have 3 other 2 gig 7200rpm drives (2 of them in a raid 0).
Everything's been working perfect, until I got the bright idea to upgrade to Mountain Lion, the other day.
Once I started the install process, and the computer reboot itself. It shut down, and started,the boot process, then the Apple logo would turn into a circle with a slash through it, and that's as far as it would go. I searched out solutions, resetting pram (I think that's what it was, by booting and pressing r+p+command+alt, all at same time). That didn't help. I could boot into safe mode, and had to delete all files associated with mountain lion upgrade. Everything went back to normal, except for 1 problem. If I leave my computer sitting, the screen saver comes on, then eventually the monitor shuts off, and computer will goto sleep. Somewhere in that process it causes a panic kernel, and when I press any key on the keyboard, tells me I need to hard reset. Computer starts again, and gives a report (I don't know how to read those, so no clue what it means).
I decided maybe it was time for afresh install of my osx, and then reinstall all my programs. So I looked into how to do this. I first created a Mountail Lion install (on a thumb drive). I booted up, holding the opt key (think that's what it was, I'm not sitting in front of my keyboard at the moment). Boot to the choose disk loader. Gave me 1 option, to boot from thumb drive. It loads, gives me the usual options, time machine, install ML, disk utility, and get help. I try install ML, goes through the process, and gets to the point where I choose where to install, and only gives me 2 options, the thumb drive or my time machine drive (which is in an external enclosure). None of my Internal drives. So I got disk utility, and the only drives it shows are the thumb drive and disk utility.
So that didn't get me anywhere.
Then I tried a fresh install from the Snow Leopard disk that came,new with my Mac Pro. I put thst in, and rebooted, holding C to boot from DVD drive. I could hear it trying to boot from DVD drive, but eventually I get the panic kernel screen. So I try the opt key, takes me to choose disk screen, and I pick boot from the install DVD, same result.
So now I'm not sure what to do?
Can I clone my boot drive again, swap that inside my computer, then take my SSD, and reformat it, and then put back into slot 1, and try booting without any osx loaded, using either of the 2 methods above (install DVD, or ML thumb drive)? Wll I be able to install then?
Surely if someone was building a,system for scratch, they'd be able to install to a blank drive?
Thanks for any help,
Jeff
I have a 2009 8 core 2.26ghz processors. Running 26 gig ram, and I've upgraded the video card to a quadro 4000 for Mac. Came installed with Snow Leopard, and I've upgraded to Lion.
About a year ago, I installed a 256gig SSD drive, that I purchased from OWC. I closed my main drive onto the SSD, and swapped the drives out. I then reformatted my old drive, and used that for time machine. That drives is in an external enclosure, connected via an esat card and cable. Internally I have 3 other 2 gig 7200rpm drives (2 of them in a raid 0).
Everything's been working perfect, until I got the bright idea to upgrade to Mountain Lion, the other day.
Once I started the install process, and the computer reboot itself. It shut down, and started,the boot process, then the Apple logo would turn into a circle with a slash through it, and that's as far as it would go. I searched out solutions, resetting pram (I think that's what it was, by booting and pressing r+p+command+alt, all at same time). That didn't help. I could boot into safe mode, and had to delete all files associated with mountain lion upgrade. Everything went back to normal, except for 1 problem. If I leave my computer sitting, the screen saver comes on, then eventually the monitor shuts off, and computer will goto sleep. Somewhere in that process it causes a panic kernel, and when I press any key on the keyboard, tells me I need to hard reset. Computer starts again, and gives a report (I don't know how to read those, so no clue what it means).
I decided maybe it was time for afresh install of my osx, and then reinstall all my programs. So I looked into how to do this. I first created a Mountail Lion install (on a thumb drive). I booted up, holding the opt key (think that's what it was, I'm not sitting in front of my keyboard at the moment). Boot to the choose disk loader. Gave me 1 option, to boot from thumb drive. It loads, gives me the usual options, time machine, install ML, disk utility, and get help. I try install ML, goes through the process, and gets to the point where I choose where to install, and only gives me 2 options, the thumb drive or my time machine drive (which is in an external enclosure). None of my Internal drives. So I got disk utility, and the only drives it shows are the thumb drive and disk utility.
So that didn't get me anywhere.
Then I tried a fresh install from the Snow Leopard disk that came,new with my Mac Pro. I put thst in, and rebooted, holding C to boot from DVD drive. I could hear it trying to boot from DVD drive, but eventually I get the panic kernel screen. So I try the opt key, takes me to choose disk screen, and I pick boot from the install DVD, same result.
So now I'm not sure what to do?
Can I clone my boot drive again, swap that inside my computer, then take my SSD, and reformat it, and then put back into slot 1, and try booting without any osx loaded, using either of the 2 methods above (install DVD, or ML thumb drive)? Wll I be able to install then?
Surely if someone was building a,system for scratch, they'd be able to install to a blank drive?
Thanks for any help,
Jeff