“[The] general public can get a taste of Apple’s upcoming OS X 10.10 Yosemite desktop operating system for Macs by signing up for a public beta over at the OS X Beta Program webpage starting tomorrow,” Christian Zibreg reports for iDownloadBlog.
“The company has said that the public beta will only open to the first million applicants so you better sign up now if you haven’t already,” Zibreg reports. “The public beta program is voluntary, so don’t expect any compensation from Apple for your participation. Installing the beta software does not void your hardware warranty.”
“Although the latest Yosemite beta is surprisingly stable (for a beta), Apple advises against installing it on your work machine because things can go wrong and you don’t want your precious data be held hostage of beta hiccups,” Zibreg reports. “You can perform a clean install of Yosemite or, preferably, deploy it on a separate partition, which will allow you to dual-boot Mavericks and Yosemite on a single Mac.”
Read more in the full article here.
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I had the DP on my main Mid-2012 13″ MacBook Pro in a separate partition and it hasn’t been the same since. I don’t know if it was something to do with NVRAM, or some other setting, or what, but it got to the point one day where I almost wasn’t able to boot into either partition (ML or Y). I deleted it on the spot, got rid of the partition, and put it on a whole other machine. My MacBook still has trouble booting up into ML sometimes. It usually starts with a circle with a line through it, instead of the Apple logo when booting. Sometimes it doesn’t boot and sometimes it flickers back and forth between the two icons, but finishes booting. It just had another one of those episodes last night after Yosemite being gone for almost a month. So be careful about just using another partition, and Mountain Lion (maybe the ML/Y combination has something to do with it).
You could be having a hardware issue. If you are still under warranty then get Apple to look at it.
Otherwise a clean wipe of the drive and reinstall may be warranted.
It only started this after Yosemite, but, yeah, I may wipe it and reinstall everything if it keeps it up. Maybe I’ll open it up and reseat some connectors…though it’s only having trouble during booting and never any other time, and not too frequently, though I don’t always watch it boot up. It may be happening more than I think!
If there is a maintenance partition on the drive (and there should be), you may want to boot from that and run disk repair to see if there are any file system issues.
There is also that possibility that hard disk failure is imminent, so you may want to keep that Time Machine running at all times, just to prevent the full force of Murphy’s Law…
Maybe you need to reset the NVRAM… http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1379?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US
Although the latest Yosemite beta is surprisingly stable (for a beta), Apple advises against installing it on your work machine
Blessedly, the beta did settle down with the current release. But OMFG was it awful for the first two releases. In the past, I’ve had Apple hand off two betas in a row that were impossible to boot on my hardware. Nightmare deluxe. That forced me to step backwards and do a clean install of the previous version (which I wisely grab and keep around, if Apple allow it).
I only run betas on a second volume/partition.
“The company has said that the public beta will only open to the first million applicants so you better sign up now if you haven’t already,” Zibreg reports.
I would venture that number was passed a long time ago.
I was able to sign up yesterday