Any attempt to load the base OS X Yosemite to a Firewire 800 drive failed with the black screen I've seen repeatedly. Therefore, the plan became to connect the drive to the laptop and install it there. If that completes successfully, I will bring the drive back to the iMac to see if it will boot.
This is Yevette's computer and I will update from here as it goes. It's just about at the point now at which the screen would go black during the install on the iMac We shall see.
1:54 Update:
It's now past the point on the laptop at which it had been failing on the iMac.
1:59 Update
It's now well past the point of previous failures.
Note: one variable between this and the attempts on the iMac. This is a Firewire drive which was connected with a Thunderbolt adaptor. That is not supported on the laptop so it was removed for this install.
2:06 Update:
Laptop booted into the Yosemite 10.10 base system with no trouble and is in setup now.
2:17 Update:
Firewire drive with virgin copy of Yosemite 10.10 was re-connected via the Thunderbolt adaptor to the iMac. The adaptor is required as this iMac does not support Firewire. The system came up and the next move is to boot into the virgin system to install Final Cut 10.2 on it. That will create a pristine system with no chance of any non-Apple ingredients.
2:28 Update:
Attempting to boot into the system I successfully booted from the laptop causes a black screen when I try it on the iMac.
I am becoming deeply-suspicious of the Thunderbolt adaptor as there is no other variable. I have left the drive with the Thunderbolt drive powered-down. One possible validation is if I go into Final Cut 2.0 and can successfully edit the video. If yes then the Thunderbolt adaptor is the cause. Here goes.
2:35 Update:
Final Cut 10.2 failed just as it had previously.
What has been gained:
There is no chance third-party software is causing the problem because none of it was loaded. There were only two products on the test system, OS X Yosemite 10.10.3 and Final Cut 10.2.
There is something deeply sick in Yosemite 10.10.3 and the only thing for sure at this point is that Apple owns the problem, regardless of whether they're willing to admit it.
2:42 Update:
Interruption due to yet another spontaneous black screen crash. Prior to restarting, I disconnected the Thunderbolt adaptor from the machine. There will now be another test with Final Cut to see if that disconnection made any difference.
2:47 Update:
Failure is exactly the same. This, as much as possible, eliminates hardware as the problem. The Firewire drive wasn't even connected.
My conclusion remains the same. The poisoning of Final Cut comes from Apple. Hardware is eliminated at the disk and computer level as the source of the problem. The virgin system has nothing but Apple software on it.
Whether it's OS X Yosemite 10.10.3, Final Cut 10.2 or a combination of the two is beyond my willingness to debug as it's clearly Apple's problem and no-one else can fix it.
This is Yevette's computer and I will update from here as it goes. It's just about at the point now at which the screen would go black during the install on the iMac We shall see.
1:54 Update:
It's now past the point on the laptop at which it had been failing on the iMac.
1:59 Update
It's now well past the point of previous failures.
Note: one variable between this and the attempts on the iMac. This is a Firewire drive which was connected with a Thunderbolt adaptor. That is not supported on the laptop so it was removed for this install.
2:06 Update:
Laptop booted into the Yosemite 10.10 base system with no trouble and is in setup now.
2:17 Update:
Firewire drive with virgin copy of Yosemite 10.10 was re-connected via the Thunderbolt adaptor to the iMac. The adaptor is required as this iMac does not support Firewire. The system came up and the next move is to boot into the virgin system to install Final Cut 10.2 on it. That will create a pristine system with no chance of any non-Apple ingredients.
2:28 Update:
Attempting to boot into the system I successfully booted from the laptop causes a black screen when I try it on the iMac.
I am becoming deeply-suspicious of the Thunderbolt adaptor as there is no other variable. I have left the drive with the Thunderbolt drive powered-down. One possible validation is if I go into Final Cut 2.0 and can successfully edit the video. If yes then the Thunderbolt adaptor is the cause. Here goes.
2:35 Update:
Final Cut 10.2 failed just as it had previously.
What has been gained:
There is no chance third-party software is causing the problem because none of it was loaded. There were only two products on the test system, OS X Yosemite 10.10.3 and Final Cut 10.2.
There is something deeply sick in Yosemite 10.10.3 and the only thing for sure at this point is that Apple owns the problem, regardless of whether they're willing to admit it.
2:42 Update:
Interruption due to yet another spontaneous black screen crash. Prior to restarting, I disconnected the Thunderbolt adaptor from the machine. There will now be another test with Final Cut to see if that disconnection made any difference.
2:47 Update:
Failure is exactly the same. This, as much as possible, eliminates hardware as the problem. The Firewire drive wasn't even connected.
My conclusion remains the same. The poisoning of Final Cut comes from Apple. Hardware is eliminated at the disk and computer level as the source of the problem. The virgin system has nothing but Apple software on it.
Whether it's OS X Yosemite 10.10.3, Final Cut 10.2 or a combination of the two is beyond my willingness to debug as it's clearly Apple's problem and no-one else can fix it.
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