Re: [Fed-Talk] Lion install problems on 2008 Mac Pro
Re: [Fed-Talk] Lion install problems on 2008 Mac Pro
- Subject: Re: [Fed-Talk] Lion install problems on 2008 Mac Pro
- From: Bryan Jones <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 06 Aug 2011 14:17:41 -0600
- Acceptlanguage: en-US
- Thread-topic: [Fed-Talk] Lion install problems on 2008 Mac Pro
Seagate had some 1TB drives about two years ago that just about killed us. Not only was their firmware incompatible with RAID arrays (corrupted *huge* datasets), but we'd have weird problems even getting them to run an OS as a single drive from time to time.
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On Aug 6, 2011, at 1:57 PM, Miller, Jason G. (MSFC-IS40)[LMIT - MSFC] wrote:
> I managed to fix the issue. It seems Lion may have a problem with a certain model of Seagate drives (ST31000340AS). I could not install it on 4 of these drives. Same model, different firmwares. I installed it on another model of drive and it's humming along just fine.
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> Weird.
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> --Jason
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> On Aug 6, 2011, at 12:18 AM, Bryan Jones wrote:
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>> Huh... Good to know and thanks for the correction.
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>> On Aug 5, 2011, at 11:16 PM, Dave Schroeder wrote:
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>>> This is not correct. The Lion installer can target a blank volume, and this is a supported installation method.
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>>> - Dave
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>>> On Aug 5, 2011, at 5:33 PM, Bryan William Jones wrote:
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>>>> To my knowledge, you can only install 10.7 on a partition with 10.6 already installed. Install 10.6 on the drive you want, then install 10.7 on top of it.
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>>>> Bryan William Jones, Ph.D.
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>>>> On Aug 5, 2011, at 4:23 PM, Miller, Jason G. (MSFC-IS40)[LMIT - MSFC] wrote:
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>>>>> I’m reaching out to anyone on this list just in case you’re out there.
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>>>>> Have any of you tried to do a clean install of Lion on a 2008 Mac Pro (version 3.1)? I have a system with 4 drives in it and I’m trying to install it on one of the empty drives so I can dual boot between Snow and Lion for the time being. Unfortunately, the install fails every time. The error is a little different each time, but it seems to do with updating system extensions or some kind of filesystem locking.
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>>>>> Has anyone encountered this? I’m really baffled. I’ve tried resetting the SMC and zapping the PRAM. I understand this list is not really for troubleshooting this type of thing, so I would be happy to take any conversations about it offline if any of you are out there. I’m just reaching out for help at this point.
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>>>>> Thanks and sorry for the intrusion.
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>>>>> --Jason
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>>>>> Jason Miller
>>>>> NOMAD Chief Engineer
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