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Board: Asus P6x58D-E
CPU: Intel I7 950
Graphics: EVGA GTX 460 Fermi, 768MB
HD: Vertex 2 SSD, 60GB
I have set followed Tony's guide to a tee. Removed a stick of ram to get down to 4GB, unplugged all extra drives and USB. DVD is on first SATA port, SSD is on the 2nd. Not using the 2x 6GB/S ports. BIOS settings for AHCI, suspend mode to S3, and DVD is first boot device, hard drive second.
Initially, the drive had a windows 7 install on it, which I was going to format away. After bringing up Disk Utility, and clicking Partition, the installer locked up for 20 minutes before I gave up. I booted an Ubuntu Live disk and partitioned the drive to remove the Windows System Information partition, and installed GUID Partition table. Then I created a full 60GB ext3 partition on there, hoping the OSX installer could deal with that. After getting back to the installer, I tried loading Disk Utility again, but it hung at "Getting Disk Information", again for 15 minutes or so before I gave up. Back to Ubuntu, I formatted the partition to FAT and tried once more. Disk Utility loaded this time, but there was no Partition tab. I had seen other people just use Erase and it seemed like that would be fine for me. I set it to the OSX Journaled filesystem as specified in the guide, and clicked erase. It then hung at "Unmounting Disk" for about an hour before I gave up completely.
I am at your mercy, lords of OSX! What have I missed?!
CPU: Intel I7 950
Graphics: EVGA GTX 460 Fermi, 768MB
HD: Vertex 2 SSD, 60GB
I have set followed Tony's guide to a tee. Removed a stick of ram to get down to 4GB, unplugged all extra drives and USB. DVD is on first SATA port, SSD is on the 2nd. Not using the 2x 6GB/S ports. BIOS settings for AHCI, suspend mode to S3, and DVD is first boot device, hard drive second.
Initially, the drive had a windows 7 install on it, which I was going to format away. After bringing up Disk Utility, and clicking Partition, the installer locked up for 20 minutes before I gave up. I booted an Ubuntu Live disk and partitioned the drive to remove the Windows System Information partition, and installed GUID Partition table. Then I created a full 60GB ext3 partition on there, hoping the OSX installer could deal with that. After getting back to the installer, I tried loading Disk Utility again, but it hung at "Getting Disk Information", again for 15 minutes or so before I gave up. Back to Ubuntu, I formatted the partition to FAT and tried once more. Disk Utility loaded this time, but there was no Partition tab. I had seen other people just use Erase and it seemed like that would be fine for me. I set it to the OSX Journaled filesystem as specified in the guide, and clicked erase. It then hung at "Unmounting Disk" for about an hour before I gave up completely.
I am at your mercy, lords of OSX! What have I missed?!