After installing 10.5.5, boot with the USB drive and select the Software Updateĥ. Choose to install OS X Leopard on the USB drive the initial installation of 10.5.5 wants 11.4 GB you'll want more as you have to install updates - I would recommend at least have a 30-40 GB partitionĤ. Plug-in USB drive and insert original OS X Leopard media in drive, reboot and hold down the Option key to choose to boot from the OS X Leopard mediaģ. You need to make sure the drive has a partition map scheme of "GUID partition table" if you don't partition your drive in this fashion the installation will not be able to chose the USB drive for installation (don't worry Mac gives good diagnostic information if you fail to do this).Ģ. Some additional information on installing OS X Leopard from the original media which was shipped with the computer:ġ. When I rebooted into OS X Snow Leopard, Software Updater showed that all software was up to date. I repaired all permissions on the disk (same results).Īs jacwuhan posted, I installed OS X Leopard on a spare USB drive and was able to install the firmware update. I tried resetting PRAM and SMC (same results)Ĥ. I quit all applications and even tried booting in Safe mode (to ensure nothing was running) and received the same error.ģ. The drive seemed to be working I was able to read/write a DVDĢ. I exhausted as many obvious possibilities I could think of:ġ. The MSHWFirmware log only showed: INQUIRY of (MATSHITA DVD-R UJ-868 ) failed with No Sense: No additional sense information. If the problem continues, contact Apple support". When I downloaded I was unable to install the update the error was "There was a problem installing this update. OS 10.6.5 - I recently replaced my SuperDrive with a Matshita UJ-868 and Software Update wanted to install SuperDrive Firmware Update 3.0. If you don't want to downgrade you can just use an usb drive for leopard.Ĭonfirmation (and kudos) to the post from jacwuhan I had the problem described in the original post and was able to boot from a Leopard system and install the SuperDriver Firmware update 3.0. I did it because I always have a backup of all my files so reinstall the os is not a big problem to me. After that I formatted back my computer to Snow leopard. You will need to use 10.5.7 to be able to install.įor mine I just reinstalled Leopard 10.5.5 which is my computer preinstalled OS and updated to 10.5.7 and the update applied without any problem. Paulshaw I don't know your MacBook Pro specifications but I think that the same apply to you. you will be able to install the SD update. If you have your MacBook restore dvd you can just install it in a spare usb or firewire drive and boot the computer with that drive. Rvbarc, It seems that your MacBook preinstalled os is Leopard 10.5.7, so you need 10.5.7 to be able to update. Have you fixed your superdrive update problem? If not that is how I fixed mine.įirst I found that the problem is not the Efi firmware update but Snow leopard. I don't know what is going wrong, How can I install this update? your help will be appreciated I checked the firmware of my macbook and it is 1.3 and I tried to update to 1.4 but the computer shows that I don't need this update. The updater will launch automatically when the installation is complete. To complete the firmware update process, please follow the instructions in the updater application (/Applications/Utilities/SuperDrive Update.app). This update works with the following EFI updates: This update will eliminate the noise made by the optical disk drive during wake from sleep on your Mac. If the problem continues, contact apple support." I don't have any application opened. The update starts but stop saying that" There was a problem installing this update. I have a Macbook aluminium 2008 and a superdrive firmware update 3.0 popped up in SU.
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