hello.. hopefully someone here can provide some insight or help to get me outa this unholy conundrum that os x installers have bulldozed me into :/ heres where im at.. im installing OS X Yosemite 10.10.3 on a fresh/clean SSD (meaning wiped and formatted as hfs+) on a MacBook Pro 8,2 (early 2011) using a live usb installer using image downloaded from app store. there are no words of any kind i can string together to adequately explaine what a nightmare this has been --and continues to be. smashcut. took about 2 full days for the installer to complete phase 1, which it then proceeded to reboot and initiate the setup process. unfortunately I was away from my comp when this happened, away just long enough for the system to sleep--or hibernate, if you will. after awakening the lid-ajar laptop ..both the keyboard & the trackpad have become 100% non-responsive. having one USB 2.0 port available, i was able to utilize a wireless mouse to regain control of the curser. this has not been a sufficient appendage to complete the installation due to REQUIRED alphanumeric entry at the user-creation-stage.. i even tried to copy some text prior to arriving at this stage, to then paste in whatever fields needed without success ---c'mon that was a tiny bit clever anyway :] ---- this brings us to where im at as we type.. in the present moment ive rebooted (hard shutdown, yikes) back to the live install USB to repair permissions on the target drive. my only other thoughts are to figure out how to bring up an on screen keyboard when back to the target drive installation interface ¿? or if i can find a usb keyboard, maybe tag team that open port w/ the wireless mouse¿? my main concern is that the install not be jeopardized as i cannot aford to start the 46 hour install all over again. any thoughts, experience, direction, insight, suggestions, or help is deeply appreciated and thank you kindly ahead of time!!
no keyboard during yosemite install
I'm sure you're right about that. I have 3 OSs available to the MBP I'm typing on now (2 on the internal SSD and one via Thunderbolt). I have found that installs and updates boot into the wrong partition as much as 50% of the time - and there isn't even anything hacky about this particular setup, so I have no confidence in the re-boot part of the process. Fortunately, though mildly inconvenient, it's never actually caused a problem that rebooting into the right partition hasn't fixed - it happily completes once it's directed properly 🙂
ok i'll try to be present when it's getting to the end of the first phase
just outa my curiosity.. what are the details on yer MBP setup? 3 OS's and nothing hacky sounds intruiging :]
obviously OS X..windows, and i want to believe the third would be a linux distro, but could also be a diff OS X version?
haha ..how'd i do?
Spot on! Although sorry to say that the third is OS X 10.11 DP2 🙂
I'm also curious; why not swap out your main drive with the SSD and put the original in the optical drive port? Was your model one of the ones that had the option of a main SSD at purchase? And, assuming you've had your SSD hooked up there while things were more funcitonal, what was your sense of its speed while transferring files? Something on a par with a 7200HDD? More, less? I'm still intrigued by those install times.
Also, you've consistently referred to your 10.10.3 USB installer as "live", which I understand to mean that you've fully installed 10.10.3 onto a 16GB+ Thumb drive. If that's the case, why not just clone it to the external SSD rather than doing a fresh install?
How is your fresh install going btw?
If you have problems with the keyboard and trackpad, that after the installation aren't working. What I did, is to plugin a USB-HUB, the mouse and keyboard connected to it started working, and after that I had to run the following command, that installed all the necesary drivers (USB, mouse, keyboard, video, etc) /Applications/OpenCore-Patcher.app/Contents/MacOS/OpenCore-Patcher --patch_sys_vol and after you must restart. Sometimes takes several reboots, because after the restart it installs more drivers.
You can check this on the OpenlegacyPathcer web site : https://dortania.github.io/OpenCore-Legacy-Patcher/TROUBLESHOOTING.html#keyboard-mouse-and-trackpad-not-working-in-installer-or-after-update