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Nightmare install on an HP Z400 - on the verge of giving up.
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As the title says, this has been the biggest pain in the arse. And I've seen other z400s have success so I have no idea why mine is having so much trouble.
Here are the details:
HP Z400
3.06 QUAD CORE ZEON W3550 processor
8 GIGS RAM
X58 CHIPSET
NVIDIA QUADRO FX 3800 GRAPHICS
I've been using Niresh, obviously.
There have been a lot of weird things that have happened during this install. Installing Yosemite was a total disaster. I couldn't get to the install screen. And I couldn't even get it to work in Virtual Box.
Maverics was a different story. After some finagling I got it running in virtual box, so I decided to give it a go for real. I booted -x -v USBBusFix=Yes.
Tried the USB boot first and hit the Bluetooth error. No way around it. Next. I used the ISO burned to a DVD. Using the same bootflags, I finally did make it to the install screen; I formatted my 150gb HD in Mac Extended Journaled, but the install failed half way through. On the log it said:
Unable to revert bless to target or imgsrc
Checked my BIOS. It seems OK, but HP some weird setting with regard to the HDD - ACHI or SATA. I'm kind of at my witts end. I've searched the forums up and down. There were a lot of unreplied posts. Hopefully this time someone can help.
Thanks. Let me know what other info is needed.
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