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[Guide] Success! Install 10.8 on old unsupported Mac
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Cannot boot Mountain Lion after successful Install
Progress folks!! After repairing disks and permissions, I was able to boot using shift (safe mode) but now a weird problem is preventing login.
During setup it asked me for my login, and I setup the user name and password.
However, it is not accepting the password at all. To make it simple, I just did a one letter password, and it still would not take it.
The good things is that I tried booting without the safe mode, and it booted as well.
However, this login thing is now blocking my way.
Is it confused because I also have Lion in the same disk (they have their separate partitions though).
I really appreciate your help, if you could just get me over this last hump it would be great! Do I have to use the same password and username for both Lion and ML?
Progress folks!! After repairing disks and permissions, I was able to boot using shift (safe mode) but now a weird problem is preventing login.
During setup it asked me for my login, and I setup the user name and password.
However, it is not accepting the password at all. To make it simple, I just did a one letter password, and it still would not take it.
The good things is that I tried booting without the safe mode, and it booted as well.
However, this login thing is now blocking my way.
Is it confused because I also have Lion in the same disk (they have their separate partitions though).
I really appreciate your help, if you could just get me over this last hump it would be great! Do I have to use the same password and username for both Lion and ML?
Cannot boot Mountain Lion: won't let me login
I tried the following already:
No matter what I do, it is convinced that the password is wrong.
So all this effort of installing ML went into vain. Can't celebrate.
This is one weird and persistent problem. And moreover, I am not convinced that reinstalling would make the problem go away ..
Please help ..
I tried the following already:
- booted to recovery partition, started terminal and did reset password.
- Chose the ML partition for the password reset
- reset the password and password hint
- Tried booting again, but the system gives the same problem and behaves like no password has been changed at all. It shows the password hint as the old one.
No matter what I do, it is convinced that the password is wrong.
So all this effort of installing ML went into vain. Can't celebrate.
This is one weird and persistent problem. And moreover, I am not convinced that reinstalling would make the problem go away ..
Please help ..
Just a quick update .. I did a reinstall again ..
however, quickly back to the same problem.
I don't know if it is just sheer bad luck in my case. everybody else does not seem to have any problems in doing this.
May as well give up .. not worth the effort.
Thanks for your time and help.
however, quickly back to the same problem.
I don't know if it is just sheer bad luck in my case. everybody else does not seem to have any problems in doing this.
May as well give up .. not worth the effort.
Thanks for your time and help.
You may enable the rootuser from within the install partition. You may be successful creating a new user account from this account.
Anyway. If a reinstall did not fixes it for you I am pretty user that you Mavericks Install.app from the AppStore is somehow damaged and that you properly need to redownload it.
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This is what you need to do
1. Boot into Single-User Mode
Turn on the computer. Upon hearing the startup chime, hold the key combination CMD+S. This boots the computer into single-user mode, which in turn gives you access via the root user. It is important to note, however, that this can be blocked by a firmware password. If thats the case, head on over to one of our other guides on getting into single-user mode while locked.
2. Mount the Hard Drive
Once single-user mode boots (it should look like a black screen with white text), we need to mount the hard drive. At the prompt type in:
/sbin/mount -uw /
3. Remove the Setup Has Been Completed File
Now that the drive is mounted, we can edit the file system. Were going to delete a file that tells your computer that you have completed the initial setup. Type in:
rm /var/db/.applesetupdone
This command deletes the file .applesetupdone in the /var/db/ directory, which the computer checks for on startup to ensure that the computer has already been set up.
4. Reboot
Pretty self explanatory. We need the system to reboot so it can check for the file and then notice its missing. Type in:
reboot
5. Watch the Video
Your computer will shut down and reboot. A setup window should pop up asking what language you want your computer to be in, just as if you turned on your computer for the first time after purchase. After you select a language, a welcome video will play. If you brought headphones along, feel free to plug them in during the Select A Language screen. Otherwise, enjoy a little music.
6. Continue Setup
Go through the rest of the setup process.
Be sure to select DO NOT TRANSFER MY DATA.
Dont worry, all of your old files will still be on the computer.
At one point during setup you will have to configure your internet connection, this is when you need your wireless password. Its fine if you dont have the password, you can enter it later if you need to.
7. Set up the Administrator Account
Near the end of the setup you will be asked to create an administrator account for your computer.
Be sure to make the name of the admin account different from the existing one.
You can name the account anything that you want, except for the name of the old administrator account. If the new account is given the same name as the old one it will overwrite the old account, causing all the old accounts files to be deleted.
8. Finish Setup and Log In
Wrap up the setup and the computer should automatically log you into your new administrator account.
Update to 10.8.5
Hi, i'm with 10.8.3 and i want to update to 10.8.5, just got the combo update but it gives me an error -- An error occurred while evaluating Javascript for the Package.
Any tip to perform the update? What steps should i follow?
Many thanks.
Ps: Macbook late 2007 (3.1)
Hi, i'm with 10.8.3 and i want to update to 10.8.5, just got the combo update but it gives me an error -- An error occurred while evaluating Javascript for the Package.
Any tip to perform the update? What steps should i follow?
Many thanks.
Ps: Macbook late 2007 (3.1)
The recommended way is making a reinstall.
You still may want to try (on your own responsibility) to install the package using the 3rd party Pacifist.app (search the web) or using the pkgutil command in the Terminal.app (search the web, too). Afterwards you need to boot to your install drive and apply MLPF.app again using the 10.8.4 option.
So i can install directly (from scratch) 10.8.5? The app only has option to 10.8.3, if i choose that option with 10.8.5 when installing will it work?
Thaks
Thaks
So i can install directly (from scratch) 10.8.5? The app only has option to 10.8.3, if i choose that option with 10.8.5 when installing will it work?
Thaks
In this case you have an old version, as the lastest one should have support for 10.8.4. The 10.8.3 option won't work.
iMessage, changing password fixed for me
I installed 10.8.0 on a 2006 Mac Mini, updated with EFI 2.1 and a 2Ghz Core 2 Duo.
I was getting the message about not being able to active iMessages and to contact Apple with a particular reference numbers. I already use the iCloud account on another Mac and my iPhone, and checked I could log in and out on those devices. I also have a valid credit card registered. I tried changing the card, that didn't work. However I then tried changing my password and that cleared the issues for me. YMMV
I installed 10.8.0 on a 2006 Mac Mini, updated with EFI 2.1 and a 2Ghz Core 2 Duo.
I was getting the message about not being able to active iMessages and to contact Apple with a particular reference numbers. I already use the iCloud account on another Mac and my iPhone, and checked I could log in and out on those devices. I also have a valid credit card registered. I tried changing the card, that didn't work. However I then tried changing my password and that cleared the issues for me. YMMV
Cannot boot Mountain Lion: won't let me login
Update: I have pretty much exhausted all my options; here is a laundry list of what was done:
I am trying to install now on an external hard drive to see if that will succeed. If not, I will abandon this effort altogether.
I would like to thank everybody who tried to help me out. I was not fortunate enough to hear from the master hacker, but he may be busy with the next big thing (MVPF) ..
Update: I have pretty much exhausted all my options; here is a laundry list of what was done:
- As per Rastafabi, I redownloaded the ML install from App store; repeated the entire process but first erasing all old files from both install and ML partitions. However, I ended up at the same point of not being able to login.
- As per chrisrand, I tried his instructions, but it did not give me the option to create administrator account, just a simple user account (it could be because there is already an administrator account on the Lion partition). and I am again back to the problem of not being able to login.
I am trying to install now on an external hard drive to see if that will succeed. If not, I will abandon this effort altogether.
I would like to thank everybody who tried to help me out. I was not fortunate enough to hear from the master hacker, but he may be busy with the next big thing (MVPF) ..
Cannot boot Mountain Lion: won't let me login
Update: Installation on external drive had the same issue ..
Rastafabi, should I just try the installation method you posted for Mavericks in the other forum? It is the Mac-Pro.7z file.
I have not looked at it, just downloaded it. Do I have chance of success with my MBP model?
Update: Installation on external drive had the same issue ..
Rastafabi, should I just try the installation method you posted for Mavericks in the other forum? It is the Mac-Pro.7z file.
I have not looked at it, just downloaded it. Do I have chance of success with my MBP model?
You may use the guide, of course but remember that it will only work with mavericks. Anyway I can pass you the files making the same possible for Mountain Lion. I will dig for them on Backup volume tomorrow.
You can't. OS X only can restore permissions to files which have been installed via a pkg installer, meaning that only OS X system partitions may be verified or fixed. Anyway you can fix permissions manualy per file/folder which is useful for the extensions folder for example.
Okay. Here you are.
For all those wanting to try this files keep in mind, that they are only designed to work with x1600 equipped machines (MacBook Pro/iMac). Anyway you better go with MLPF as there is support for iMessage/Facetime. Only use this files if you have specific reasons to do so (MLPF does not work/you need a 64bit kernel for some hardware rested kext files/you want to set up a FusionDrive).
The graphic Frameworks are edited by hackerwayne/MlforAll and extracted from MLPF. I only release this, because MLPF 0.22 64bit is not available anymore.
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No. It's a hardware, not a software limitation. This feature is only available on some '12/'13 Macs.