Keeping MacMini (late 2009) Alive
I brought my MacMini (late 2009 model) back in ... errr ... late 2009. It was a good machine since it was quiet and reliable. Flash forward to 2014, it is still quiet, but not reliable anymore.
First the Windows 8.1 (64 bit) that I installed on it using BootCamp crashed and I couldn't get it back to running consistently after 2 attempts. At the end I decided to stick with Mac OSX Mavericks by installing the OS on various partition of an external hard disk. In fact, I was that was the strength of OSX, which allows me to install OS on external hard disk instead of forcing me to install OS on the primary hard disk of the system.
Problem is, though, that I frequently got crash on these OS installed on partitions in an external USB 2.0 hard disk. In fact, I even got crash and hang up even when I tried to install OSX Mavericks on those partitions. I was confused, and wonder if there's something wrong with this external harddisk.
At the end, I used to Disk Utility, ejected all partition of the INTERNAL hard disk, set up 3 partitions, and then installed OSX Mavericks clean on the first and then later third partition. (I planned on using the 2nd one for beta OS in the future) And in these 2 times, the process was pretty stable. So at least I found a pattern that works (instead of seeing installer stuck for hour and eventually forced me to hard restart the machine)
I only used the 1st partition (mainly as a clean backup) OS for a short while and found that it seemed pretty stable. So I went a head adn installed the same OSX Mavericks on the 3rd partitions as a real work partition. Things seemed working fine throughout the install process. but after the OS up and running and I started a bit configuration, I got this crash:
This is odd, because in the last few days dealing with tons of crash on OS installed on external harddisk, they were mostly crashed because of file corruption or other disk related error. So I am actually starting to worry about the there's something wrong with the MacMini itself. If so, I may need to buy a new MacMini. I will keep observing it.
BTW, I still couldn't get OSX 10.10 beta installed on any of the partition, but I tried of diagnostic the problem and decided to skip it and simply wait for the final release. Besides I can still study what I need to learn on XCode 6 beta 3, which runs fine on OSX Mavericks anyway.
First the Windows 8.1 (64 bit) that I installed on it using BootCamp crashed and I couldn't get it back to running consistently after 2 attempts. At the end I decided to stick with Mac OSX Mavericks by installing the OS on various partition of an external hard disk. In fact, I was that was the strength of OSX, which allows me to install OS on external hard disk instead of forcing me to install OS on the primary hard disk of the system.
Problem is, though, that I frequently got crash on these OS installed on partitions in an external USB 2.0 hard disk. In fact, I even got crash and hang up even when I tried to install OSX Mavericks on those partitions. I was confused, and wonder if there's something wrong with this external harddisk.
At the end, I used to Disk Utility, ejected all partition of the INTERNAL hard disk, set up 3 partitions, and then installed OSX Mavericks clean on the first and then later third partition. (I planned on using the 2nd one for beta OS in the future) And in these 2 times, the process was pretty stable. So at least I found a pattern that works (instead of seeing installer stuck for hour and eventually forced me to hard restart the machine)
I only used the 1st partition (mainly as a clean backup) OS for a short while and found that it seemed pretty stable. So I went a head adn installed the same OSX Mavericks on the 3rd partitions as a real work partition. Things seemed working fine throughout the install process. but after the OS up and running and I started a bit configuration, I got this crash:
panic(cpu 1 caller 0xffffff80030c5b9a): "Possible memory corruption: pmap_pv_remove(0xffffff8029e71ad0,0x10da28000,0x8000, 0x8000000, 0xffffff8104d63cc4, 0xfffffe8d70906140): null pv_list!"@/SourceCache/xnu/xnu-2422.110.17/osfmk/i386/pmap_internal.h:763
This is odd, because in the last few days dealing with tons of crash on OS installed on external harddisk, they were mostly crashed because of file corruption or other disk related error. So I am actually starting to worry about the there's something wrong with the MacMini itself. If so, I may need to buy a new MacMini. I will keep observing it.
BTW, I still couldn't get OSX 10.10 beta installed on any of the partition, but I tried of diagnostic the problem and decided to skip it and simply wait for the final release. Besides I can still study what I need to learn on XCode 6 beta 3, which runs fine on OSX Mavericks anyway.
posted by Deecay | 7:26 AM
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