Frank Petronio
18-Jan-2012, 19:11
I really don't think I should have to be messing around in Terminal to successfully use a new Mac with the current OS but I'm pulling the remaining strands of my hair out over this.
Goes back to thinking I was such a smart guy by buying a new Mac Mini Server (Quad core i7) to be a general purpose Mac for Photoshop, mostly.
So I get it and mess around trying to set up a RAID on the two matching internal drives. I realize that doing this prevents a standard OS install, prevents Disk Utility and Internet Recovery because I have to wipe the disks. I mess around attempting to get it to work but keep getting Missing KEXT warnings and on restart the Mac won't boot. So I give up and reformat the drives back to normal vanilla HFS Journaled drives and install OS X Lion 10.7.2 onto them in stock configuration.
Mac runs fine, Disk Utility rebuilds permissions nicely, all OK. Run software update. Install Adobe CS5 plus some related things: Harrington RIP, Epson printer and scanner updates, Transmit, Harman ICC profile, Transmit FTP, Vue Scan... all OS Lion compatible, nice and normal graphics apps. Reboot after each big install.
Running along nicely then repair permissions - get a big long list of faults but it's not unusual after installing all that. Repairs OK, notes that there is an ACL in an unexpected place. Then it requires my password to delete and move files. Won't print because it lacks proper permissions. Hmm, but I go into Get Info and change permissions to Read & Write, apply to enclosed items.
Won't reboot. Same bullshit as when I was trying to run the RAID. I run Disk Utility in recovery mode and it restarts OK.
I run Disk Utility again and it says I have a ~hundred-plus missing KEXT extensions.
Won't boot unless I reinstall the OS.
This is the third time it has done this pattern - running nice, then requiring passwords to move or modify files, unable to print or access files because of faulty permissions, then missing KEXT warnings, won't reboot on its own.
Like it progressively goes to Hell.
Meanwhile I installed 10.7.2 on my laptop and it runs great, no issues.
I figure if I take this Mini into see the Apple "Genius" they are going to reinstall the OS and pronounce it golden.
But before I bestow it on the Apple Store... is there anything else I should try? I am at the point of chucking it right now....
I haven't added any fonts and nothing strange. I am running OWC RAM, and my next try will be switching back to Apple RAM. But nothing here seems out of the ordinary and it really seems strange to me.
Goes back to thinking I was such a smart guy by buying a new Mac Mini Server (Quad core i7) to be a general purpose Mac for Photoshop, mostly.
So I get it and mess around trying to set up a RAID on the two matching internal drives. I realize that doing this prevents a standard OS install, prevents Disk Utility and Internet Recovery because I have to wipe the disks. I mess around attempting to get it to work but keep getting Missing KEXT warnings and on restart the Mac won't boot. So I give up and reformat the drives back to normal vanilla HFS Journaled drives and install OS X Lion 10.7.2 onto them in stock configuration.
Mac runs fine, Disk Utility rebuilds permissions nicely, all OK. Run software update. Install Adobe CS5 plus some related things: Harrington RIP, Epson printer and scanner updates, Transmit, Harman ICC profile, Transmit FTP, Vue Scan... all OS Lion compatible, nice and normal graphics apps. Reboot after each big install.
Running along nicely then repair permissions - get a big long list of faults but it's not unusual after installing all that. Repairs OK, notes that there is an ACL in an unexpected place. Then it requires my password to delete and move files. Won't print because it lacks proper permissions. Hmm, but I go into Get Info and change permissions to Read & Write, apply to enclosed items.
Won't reboot. Same bullshit as when I was trying to run the RAID. I run Disk Utility in recovery mode and it restarts OK.
I run Disk Utility again and it says I have a ~hundred-plus missing KEXT extensions.
Won't boot unless I reinstall the OS.
This is the third time it has done this pattern - running nice, then requiring passwords to move or modify files, unable to print or access files because of faulty permissions, then missing KEXT warnings, won't reboot on its own.
Like it progressively goes to Hell.
Meanwhile I installed 10.7.2 on my laptop and it runs great, no issues.
I figure if I take this Mini into see the Apple "Genius" they are going to reinstall the OS and pronounce it golden.
But before I bestow it on the Apple Store... is there anything else I should try? I am at the point of chucking it right now....
I haven't added any fonts and nothing strange. I am running OWC RAM, and my next try will be switching back to Apple RAM. But nothing here seems out of the ordinary and it really seems strange to me.