[charleyfarley]

oops i lost focus and allowed software update to go 10.6.8 on my mini 10v that was previously 10.6.3 i think... no worries i had another 10v running 10.6.7 so i cloned that to a usbdrive using carboncopycloner and attempted to fix the original... i was able to boot up by selecting the usb cloned drive on the boot screen and because it worked i used ccc again to clone it to the 10v hdd. BIG mistake

now i can't even get to the boot screen as the 10v fails with this error message: memory allocation error 0xdeadbeef gui.c line 384

i have spent hours searching around this and other forums looking for the same problem and solutions without joy... i got excited when i read it could be related to the display monitor and so i tried booting with the 10v attached via vga to my tv but same thing...

i'm at my wits end... magic wand wanted

[noreaux]

Hi,

Hmm, maybe You should take the HADD/SSD out of the 10v and format it on another computer. Than try to reinstall OS X?

I think this is the fastest solution.

Greetings

[asting]

Originally Posted by noreaux

Hi,

Hmm, maybe You should take the HADD/SSD out of the 10v and format it on another computer. Than try to reinstall OS X?

I think this is the fastest solution.

Greetings

If you can do this, why not pull both drives and just copy the good partition and replace the bad one.

[charleyfarley]

thanks for the replies, something i never considered...

not taken the hdd out of a 10v before... what difference does it make to format it once it is removed?

[asting]

Originally Posted by charleyfarley

thanks for the replies, something i never considered...

not taken the hdd out of a 10v before... what difference does it make to format it once it is removed?

It shouldn't matter if you format it outside of the computer.

[charleyfarley]

....update

i had to wait for a sata enclosure to arrive but when it did i removed the defective HDD - it and all its contents showed up fine when i plugged it into the 10v that works... i copied what i wanted to save and did a full disk format, twice just to be sure.

then i used carbon copy cloner to duplicate the working 10v hdd onto the formatted one... also i added the chimera bootloader as detailed in a youtube video from geekyranesh...

tried booting up the working 10v from this usb hdd but it didnt show up so i was thinking it had failed but to be sure i refitted to its own 10v, booted and got the exact same error message as before, mentioned in my first post... hmmm...

any suggestions?

[charleyfarley]

would really love to get some some help with this...

[asting]

have you tried recovery=y? can you get to the chameleon screen?

[charleyfarley]

no i can't get to the chameleon screen... it does the dell screen - i can go into the setup and boot screen - but then after the dell screen a slash rotates in the top left and then the message:

memory allocation error 0xdeadbeef gui.c line 384

[charleyfarley]

does anyone know if this problem is specifically related to hackintosh?

i'm wondering whether i might get more success with advice if i posted the problem in the general forums...