jahudka Posted February 7, 2013 Author Share Posted February 7, 2013 ok, but then it means that something else is wrong that causes the installer to freeze.. Any ideas what that may be? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Hervé Posted February 7, 2013 Administrators Share Posted February 7, 2013 No idea, sorry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jahudka Posted February 8, 2013 Author Share Posted February 8, 2013 Out of sheer curiosity, I tried installing with a bootpack for the lo-res model of D830 with X3100 graphics card. Just to see what would happen. Once the installer went into graphic mode, the screen went black, but overall it seamed that the system didn't hang - caps lock still worked, for instance. So it occured to me to connect an external monitor and voila - the screen came up happily with the gray Lion wallpaper. Then it was just a matter of closing the lid to get the actual installer to show on the external monitor. So I tried installing on an external GPT-partitioned drive. I never got as far as an actual installation though, because it would always crash - not a KP, as far as I can tell, but an installer crash accompanied with full output of the installation log and a prompt to view/save the log or shutdown/restart the pc. The log didn't make me any wiser, but I think there were some lines about not being able to open some files because they don't exist. I didn't think to save the log and post it here; I could do that, but obviously solving errors that came up with an incorrect bootpack for my system doesn't make much sense. But it occured to me that I may have a damaged source DMG after all. With the wrong bootpack it seemed that the error is as random as with the correct bootpack, the difference being that with the correct bootpack the error doesn't show - instead the installer just freezes, possibly trying to show the error. One more reason to try a different DMG ) If any of you guys think that the error log from the installation with the wrong bootpack might be of any use, just let me know and I'll post it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators Bronxteck Posted February 8, 2013 Administrators Share Posted February 8, 2013 if it is missing file and directories it most likely is a bad dmg run it through disk utility and have it verify the image. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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