As always, you can make yourself a dandy boot disk or USB drive by opening the installer's app bundle, and writing the following file to your favourite medium using the "restore" tab in Disk Utility.<p><pre><code> /Install OS X Mavericks.app/Contents/SharedSupport/InstallESD.dmg</code></pre>
Does anyone know if Apple has a general bug report mechanism for the public?<p>The Mavericks installer was not accepting the password to unlock FileVault in the installer itself after reboot. It turns out that the password prompt is in QWERTY despite the language input icon indicating that it was in Dvorak. That is a profoundly annoying bug.
So I'm doing the upgrade on an mbp with filevault2. The installer "reboots" the machine and goes into the rest of the installation. But I'm never prompted for a disk password. So... how'd that happen?
Just finished installing this. Upgrade took about 35 minutes total on my macbook air (2011). Was able to run a local Rails 4 app connecting to MySQL with no problems after the upgrade. Trying to install ruby 2.0-p247 now and all the gems and see what happens.
First hitch I've noticed with 10.9: "gdb" seems to be missing. Gcc is still there. I've looked around to see if there's another optional download that I'm missing (like a Command Line Tools for Mavericks), but I don't see one.<p>Looks like Xcode is using lldb for debugging, and I can use lldb on the command line. I guess lldb is now the standard 1st-party debugger? Guess I will be figuring out how to install gdb manually..
fwiw you can also search for it in the app store and it appears. Or go to the "updates" tab, it's visible in there for me: <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/f921jp7mjcimfac/Screenshot%202013-10-22%2013.12.42.PNG" rel="nofollow">https://www.dropbox.com/s/f921jp7mjcimfac/Screenshot%202013-...</a> (possibly because I already clicked "free upgrade" in the search result? not sure.)<p>This doesn't appear(?) to be an unintentional early leak or anything. I'm installing it on a secondary partition, happy to report if it explodes :)<p>edit: so far so good. I like what I'm seeing for the most part, took very close to 30 minutes from "click install" to "booted into 10.9" on my non-stock SSD. I'm not claiming any responsibility for other people's problems, but it seems to work from here, I'd say go for it if you're feeling adventurous.<p>edit: have to re-install Java, XCode wants to reinstall a few things, re-enable accessibility (shortcat/dterm), all in all similar to a new install. so far all apps work fine.
I'm getting the error "Before installing OS X Mavericks, this system requires MacBook Air Flash Storage Firmware Update 1.1. Click on the Updates button in the Mac App Store to install the update." even though I've applied the firmware update and there aren't any updates (besides Mavericks) in the Mac App Store. Any help?
I ran into an issue while installing. It said "An error occurred while installing OS X" and then froze. Afterwards, I got a bouncing question mark. Booting into internet recovery several times, and it couldn't find my HDD.<p>I finally assumed that it had probably fried my HDD somehow, so I powered off and ordered an SSD online since I was looking to upgrade anyway. I unplugged it from the wall and turned it on and it suddenly found the Mavericks installer again.<p>It seems to be working now.
Apple wants to try to convince me that I should save my passwords in the cloud - and that Apple doesn't have access to them? Has no one in Cupertino heard of Edward Snowden?
I'm glad to see this link submitted here. I was going to use the standard process to upgrade my OS, but I thought that this time I'd check HN first. Turns out my gamble paid off. Thanks, OP!