Recent content by rongrandia

Self-serving BUMP! I've set this aside for a few days, but coming back to it today. Any input would be GREATLY appreciated! Thanks!

Mavericks was getting a bit long in the tooth, and I finally got the courage up to attempt a fresh El Cap install on my little beasty after re-visiting this tremendous resource/community here at Tonymac. Man, you people are amazing! Thanks so much for all you do for helpless noobs such as...

Pleased to report that in absence of any warning to to do it, I restarted without incident. RG

*I* was not updating - I foolishly left auto updating on, and it downloaded and began insisting that install it. Then I accidentally clicked on "install," which put me in this predicament. Nothing is wrong with 10.9.2 except that I don't want to install it until I have the time to do it...

Fixed (?) but still afraid to restart. I worked the Googles and found the update package and deleted it, but I'm still afraid to restart. Anybody know if I'm in the clear now? Thanks! RG

I think I can defuse this bomb by finding and deleting the downloaded install package. Yes? If so, where can I find this install package, and if not, what do you recommend? Thanks!

OOOOH! I am so tantalizingly close! I had to dump my Asus board because I just couldn't make it happen. Bought this one specifically on the strength of this thread. Won't boot without npci=0x3000, so I need to figure out how to to edit that into boot.plist, but here is my question: not...

I think this might be the answer to my current problems. I hit a wall trying to install Mavericks over Lion and having KP's that seem to constellate around FakeSMC.Kext, but I had an idea: As I consider your guide, I got to thinking that people like me who don't do terminal commands and could...

Boot-looping - progress of sorts - any help much appreciated! So I did some more reading and sat with the thing for a while and learned a few things. First - Since this is an upgrade, I am assuming that once the install was completed that I could let the system boot "naturally," meaning just...

So Sorry! I had assumed that my system specs were in my sig line. Fixed that. I am beginning to think I just over-wrote my boot drive with a fresh install of Mavericks rather than upgrading the OS. Possible? RG

Boot-looping after Mavericks upgrade [FIXED] Spent the day futzing with the Mavericks upgrade. Ran into some trouble getting the new Unibeast to boot - turns out my graphics card was hanging up the works, and after trying some boot flags, I get the install underway. Everything goes great until...

Re: Success! Thanks Everybody! Follow up: Parallels?? I just did! But let me see if I can distill it. After installing Parallels, I was hoping for an "Install from Bootcamp" option, but did not see it. The best I got was an "Install from Windows 7 DVD" and selected it. It was THERE I...

Re: Success! Thanks Everybody! Follow up: Parallels?? I think I *DO* want to install windows properly - don't I? And as far as I can tell, the problem does lie in the fact that Parallels is designed to install very simply in a Bootcamp environment, but there are a few missing/misplaced...

Re: Success! Thanks Everybody! Follow up: Parallels?? Thanks for the speedy reply! Sorry to be such a goof, but THEN what? Every thing I've tried so far leads me to the same point - "preparing to configure your virtual machine" wait 2 -5 minutes, then get "You need to log into windows...

Re: Success! Thanks Everybody! Follow up: Parallels?? Sorry for being such a screamin' noob, but I really have been doing a lot of reading and futzing - STILL NO JOY IN PARALLELS. Here are a few things that I think might be worth mentioning - one us is that I seem to have TWO partitions on...