10.5.1 update hangs on Al iMac

On my Aluminum iMac after installing the updater on an external cloned FW it hangs after restart at the spinning beach ball page. After several attempts I did an erase and install of Leopard on the FW (with no migration), repaired prefs and immediately downloaded and installed 10.5.1 It hung at the spinning beach ball. As this was a pristine system I assume that there is a problem that I can't fathom. Note I updated my MacBook Pro with no problem and the FW was problem free until I tried updating. A straight update of the clone,and Archive and Install gave the same hang which caused me to to try the clean Leopard install and update. Disk Warrior did not solve the problem altho it found minor errors on the cloned drive. Any suggestions

I have the same issue with an external FW drive on a MacBook. It was fine with 10.5, but after the 10.5.1 install it just hangs on gray screen with Apple logo and spinning wheel. I think there is an external FW issue on boot with 10.5.1.

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