Boot with Leopard disc

Hello,
I have to do an "archive and install" on my macbook pro. When i am starting up with the Leopard disc, What button/letter/key do i hold down?
Thanks,
Dave.

Sorry, that was the literal answer to your question. To do an archive and install, and not an upgrade, or an erase and install, investigate the "Options" menu item (I think) in the installer. *Do not start the actual installation until you are sure you are doing an archive and install. All holding down 'C' during booting does is boot from CD; it does not guarantee an archive and install.*

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Dual Boot with Leopard and Tiger

I've got a Dual 2 GHZ Power Mac, that I recently put Leopard on. Unfortunately there's a program that I need to used for a job that doesn't play well with Leopard (yeah, I shoulda made sure before the upgrade). What I was wondering is if it was possible to partition part of the system drive and load Tiger back onto it, and then be able to boot from either Tiger or Leopard. That way I can load the programs that are only friendly with Tiger on to that partition.
Or do I need to get another drive entirely and pull the Leopard system drive out?
Thanks in advance

Hi. You can install as many different systems on different volumes/partitions as you wish. They can all be mounted at the same time, and you can select the default system to boot from in System Preferences > Startup Disc - or select at boot time by holding down the Option(alt) key as you Startup. But a system must be the only one on that volume/partition.
Where to put the 10.4 system is more tricky. If you only have one internal drive, it's possible to re-partition it live - but not really a very good idea.
It would be best to install 10.4 on a second internal drive - or a volume on that drive - or on an external FireWire drive.
Needless to say all your data should be well backed-up before starting any of this.
Rather than go through all the combinations - please post again with any detailed questions. Good Luck.

Boot with Leopard DVD Problem

Hi, I have the new Macbook pro 2011 I7 2.2gz, but now it is slow, so i tryed to reinstall OS, but when i do this with dvd and when I press "C" to boot it, my Mac make 3 beeps, normaly it is because of RAM, but the strange point it is if I took out DVD of Leopard OS, the macbook starts normaly without 3beeps, it just happen when i try to boot with DVD.
I already make the Apple test, PRAM Reset, and everything it is OK, so i Dont undersand why i can not boot with dvd os leopard to reinstall Leopard :s
PS: Sorry for my inglish
Thanks in advantage.
Tiago Correia

Another thing, I dont use my orginal boot DVD, i bought another from apple store, i saw same texts in internet and it said it is impossible to install leopard without your original DVD witch cames with ur box mac

MBP Come With Leopard Disc?

when buying a new mbp does it come with a leopard disk incase you need to reformat
or is it just preinstalled and when you reformat it is just preloaded so it is never erased

The only case where you might not, is a used or refurbished MacBook Pro. The discs received then are subject to the age of the machine. Any machine manufactured prior to October 26, 2007 would ship with Tiger installation discs. If they do not ship with any discs labeled MacBook Pro, the seller needs to call AppleCare and ask for original installation discs to be sent to you. So be sure when you buy used or refurbished the seller is able to get the original discs that shipped wtih the Mac or call AppleCare for them. Don't just buy from any seller unless you know they will give you those original discs.

Help: Cannot boot from leopard disc anymore, everything else fine

I was working on an ibook and messing with it in firewire mode and was going to install leopard on it that way from my macpro. (just letting you know the context)
I tried to restart my machine(mac pro) and boot leopard both by pushing C and by running the installer.
I get the "You need to hold the power button panic message" everytime I do this. I unplugged external devices and tried this also and it has the same problem.
I cannot boot from the dvd anymore. If I eject the disc, osx loads normally.
Any ideas what I can do? (I have tried safe boot, pram clearing and hold option on boot to check options)
Here is the kernel panic when it finally loads into osx.
here is the kernel panic log when it reboots into OSX
Sat May 17 14:13:09 2008
panic(cpu 1 caller 0x001A7BED): Kernel trap at 0x894ec373, type 14=page fault, registers:
CR0: 0x8001003b, CR2: 0x00000018, CR3: 0x00df8000, CR4: 0x00000660
EAX: 0x00000000, EBX: 0x00000000, ECX: 0x00000000, EDX: 0x0a5a1004
CR2: 0x00000018, EBP: 0x817c3bc8, ESI: 0x0a4c5c00, EDI: 0x0a4c5c00
EFL: 0x00010246, EIP: 0x894ec373, CS: 0x00000008, DS: 0x0a3c0010
Error code: 0x00000000
Backtrace, Format - Frame : Return Address (4 potential args on stack)
0x817c39d8 : 0x12b0e1 (0x4555b4 0x817c3a0c 0x133238 0x0)
0x817c3a28 : 0x1a7bed (0x45e568 0x894ec373 0xe 0x45dd24)
0x817c3b08 : 0x19e517 (0x817c3b20 0xa83c980 0x817c3bc8 0x894ec373)
0x817c3b18 : 0x894ec373 (0xe 0x48 0x10 0x10)
0x817c3bc8 : 0x894db540 (0x0 0xa83c980 0xa4c5c00 0x1)
0x817c3c08 : 0x78d45139 (0xa4c5c00 0x1 0x0 0x13)
0x817c3c68 : 0x78d3e940 (0xa4c5c00 0x2407 0x817c3d2c 0xa4c5c00)
0x817c3c98 : 0x40c515 (0xa4c5c00 0xacd8130 0xacd8130 0x0)
0x817c3ce8 : 0x437535 (0xa4c5c00 0xacd8130 0xacd8130 0x0)
0x817c3d48 : 0x18c8aa (0xa4c5c00 0xacd8130 0x0 0x0)
0x817c3db8 : 0x12d165 (0xa525c78 0xaa76b90 0x817c3df8 0x11ee04)
0x817c3df8 : 0x126247 (0xa525c00 0xa2f9254 0xaad84b0 0x0)
0x817c3f08 : 0x196afc (0x817c3f44 0x0 0x0 0x0)
0x817c3fc8 : 0x19eb34 (0xab382a0 0x0 0x1a10b5 0xa63f208)
No mapping exists for frame pointer
Backtrace terminated-invalid frame pointer 0xbffff378
Kernel loadable modules in backtrace (with dependencies):
com.apple.NVDAResman(5.1.6)@0x894d8000->0x89704fff
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IONDRVSupport(1.5)@0x78cc5000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily(2.4)@0x78ac0000
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOGraphicsFamily(1.5)@0x78d36000
com.apple.iokit.IOGraphicsFamily(1.5)@0x78d36000->0x78d51fff
dependency: com.apple.iokit.IOPCIFamily(2.4)@0x78ac0000
BSD process name corresponding to current thread: WindowServer
Mac OS version:
9A581
Kernel version:
Darwin Kernel Version 9.0.0: Tue Oct 9 21:35:55 PDT 2007; root:xnu-1228~1/RELEASE_I386
System model name: MacPro1,1 (Mac-F4208DC8)

I really appreciate everyone's help.
I am certainly not above taking the machine in but I will say this.....
I have been building and working on PC's for 15-20 years. I have never once used or had the need for a repair shop. It is my hobby. I recently switched to osx to give the mac a try and I love it.
I will say that vista/xp has four times as many problems but at least i can fix whatever comes my way hardware or software.
Any more ideas how to settle this without making my first trip to the repair shop ever?...
Chad

Cannot boot from leopard disc anymore(or image of), everything else fine

I am posting this from the osx forum because this is now obviously a hardware problem.
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1524924&tstart=60
In addition I have swapped the ram chips around and tested them one at a time and made an image of the install disc on a firewire drive and tried to boot.....I get the same kernel panic.
I called apple care and they seems to think it might be a logic board or ram problem. I have some owc ram and crucial. I can just see the "genius bar" saying that that is the problem because it is not apple branded...blah..blah.....and not really get to the heart of the problem.
I have recently added an 8800gt which works fine..... any chance of that being the problem?
Thanks for any extra help!!

Try with two dimms only at a time.
Try with Apple only; Crucial only; OWC only.
Make sure to reset PRAM/NVRAM after each change to clean NVRAM.
run AHT if you have not yet. It is good at finding defective RAM actually, but not for the more difficult 'soft' errors that do occur.
In the kern_excp entries in the panic log it could point to a repeating bad address.
Three vendors RAM may not get along, or one DIMM could be problem; or even one of the Risers.

Powermac Won't Boot From Leopard Disc, Hard Drive, etc.

I've tried to boot the computer from the cd, hard drive and other things but it will not boot because i don't know the open firmware password. Any ideas?

In fact, I have but I first saw yours.
This seems to be a relatively frequent problem.
I've even checked that Firmware Password Protection thing.
Apple procedure is puzzling to say the least. They say
it could prevent boot from DVD and advise to install
the app from the App DVD (the # 2 DVD delivered with the
MBP to correct this and deactivate FPP if it was activated in the first place.
I checked : no Firmware Password Protection in the DVD.
Usually, Apple never behave like Micro$oft, God forbid…
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Boot from Leopard install disc

My MacBook has a ? on the screen and will not safe boot. Can I boot from the OSX 5.5 install DVD?
I do not have the restore disc with me.

JHSlaughter wrote:
My MacBook has a ? on the screen and will not safe boot. Can I boot from the OSX 5.5 install DVD?
I do not have the restore disc with me.
You should be able to. Hold down the "C" key while booting with that disc in the optical drive Once you launch the OS installer and pass the language selection screen you should see a "Utilities" menu bar item that will offer Disk Utility.

Mac Mini won't boot with install disk

tried booting with install disc in and pushing "c" on keyboard and doesn't work. Using a apple wireless keyboard. Also used the keyboard that came with Mac Pro but didn't work nor did a wired logitech.
any ideas?
Thanks!

+What is the source of the idea that the mac aluminum keyboard won't work with the mini?+
Dozens of reports in this forum over the past year.
Keep in mind that by "not working" what was meant was that the startup keys wouldn't work. The Alu keyboard otherwise works fine with the Mini.
It has also been reported that the Alu Keyboard does work for startup keys if it is plugged into a hub with an external power supply.

IMac won't boot with install CD with gray screen

A couple of weeks ago I turned on my computer and couldn't get past the gray screen (with no Apple logo). I couldn't boot in safe mode, and had to boot with software install disc. I recently had to unplug my computer for a move and when I turned it on I had the same problem. Unfortunately after resetting PRAM nothing happened, and I couldn't boot in safe mode. Then I tried booting with disc pressing C during startup, and it sounded like the disc was reading ( I could hear it spinning), but I still had nothing but a gray screen. Also tried booting with recovery disc that comes with Apple Protect Plan and couldn't get past gray screen. After I leave the computer on for a couple of hours I get the folder with question mark flashing. Can anyone help?

den.thed,
Thanks. I tried the sleep method, but if I were listening to music through my Apple TV or was watching multiple movies, the IMac would shut down or go to sleep after 3 hours and sometimes that became a real bother. I have a HD with just my music from ITunes on it and then I have a new 1 TB HD that I have nothing but movies on it. Those are the 2 I want to leave on at all times, but the machine would freeze if I had both plugged in. Thanks!

Only Boots with Snow Leopard Disc

Sorry, this is a MBP and Boot camp question...
I've been running fine with windows 7 for months and one day I went to play and all I got was a black screen. The weird thing is that I could still run the bootcamp partition of windows in Parallels.
This morning I reformatted my MacBook Pro and installed Snow Leopard. I created a boot camp partition and told it to "start install", my computer rebooted, the windows disc spins up and the screen goes black indefinitely. I've tried 2 Windows 7 install discs (one from George), a Windows XP SP3, and my original Windows XP SP2 disc, no luck. I can't even get to the windows installer.
I've zapped my PRAM and performed a SMC reset.
I just erased my hard drive and tried to reinstall Leopard and then I was going to try bootcamp again. I can't even boot up off of my old Leopard disc and it won't let me boot from the system disc that came with my MacBook Pro either.
I've gone ahead and reinstalled Snow Leopard for now. I can at least use the Mac as a Mac, but it's weird that my machine will no longer accept any other disc to boot from. I can insert all of the discs and view their contents, I just can't boot from them.

Well, I found the answer myself.
My PCIe graphic card appears to be dead. When I open up System Profiler, all it shows is my NVidia 9400M.
Time for a trip to the Apple Store.

The Tale of the Beeping Macbook - AKA- My Macbook Pro keeps beeping when trying to boot into Snow Leopard Disc's disk utility

Quick back story: about a month ago my macbook was falling and I caught it quickly, I had a game controller in my hand and it lightly hit it whilst I was catching it; the laptop made no contact with the floor, couch etc. Upon reveling in my epic matrix esque catch I noticed it was beeping and the screen was completely black - Horrified I held down the power button for a forced power down and then turned it back on to see that it was fine, along with no visible scars, dents etc to the chassis. Now flash forward to present day, and the macbook pro is only two months old (bought may 4th 2011) and I notice it's got some slightly irregular slow loading points when loading a browser, photoshop, etc. I do the standard disk utility to verify the disc and it says
"Checking volume bitmap.
Checking volume information.
Invalid volume file count
(It should be 537095 instead of 537096)
Invalid volume directory count
(It should be 161641 instead of 161640)
The volume Macintosh HD was found corrupt and needs to be repaired.
Error: This disk needs to be repaired. Start up your computer with another disk (such as your Mac OS X installation disc), and then use Disk Utility to repair this disk."
So I put in the snow leopard disc to go to the disk utility within, reboot the laptop, and it goes to the gray boot screen with the dark gray apple logo and stays there whilst doing the aforementioned beep from my spider-sense catch. Does anyone happen to know what is wrong? Would that tiny tap from my controller when catching it have caused this problem I have now? Is there anything I can do at home to fix this since I can't get to the disk utility on the snow leopard disk? Will Batman ever get out of the Joker's trap? Or am I better off just making a genius bar appointment? Thanks in advance.
-ZRS

Are you using the Snow Leopard disc that came with that Mac? A gray disc that came with a different Mac won't boot yours, and a Retail (white) disc with a version of OSX earlier than the one your Mac came with won't boot it, either.
If you don't have the right disc, do you have an external HD, or can you borrow one?
(By the way, your post shows you're running Tiger; you might want to update that.)

MBP will not boot-up from Leopard disc/externel drive without getting a K.P

I have been getting Kernel Panics since updating the system, while I was using Tiger OS X, I have Installed Leopard OS X now thinking it would get rid of the problem but hasn't. Now I cannot boot into the system at all, even using the Leopard DVD/Externel Hardrive. I did take it into an Apple store today and they changed the RAM to see if that was the problem but had no luck, I was told it is proberly to main motherboard and would cost alot to replace. Has anybody got any other suggestions I could do or try? I am losing hope for this MBP.
All of a sudden it booted up with the retail Leopard disc inside and I started to install it but it came up with an error message half way thourgh installation. Message said Installation could not be completed please check your media and try again.

I'd suspect errors/bad sectors on the hard drive, insert the Leopard DVD and Boot it up while holding down the 'shift' key (to enter Safe mode) - this can find and fix a lot of errors.

Do MacBook Pro Leopard discs work with imac?

Hi, I received my 24" IMAC yesterday and am eager to dual boot with Vista.
However, I have noticed that the leopard discs in the box are grey and have Macbook Pro Mac OS 10.5 install disc on them. Is this correct? or is it a bit of an error on Apple's part. I dont want to go all the way through installing Vista only to find out its not going to work.
Any advice greatly appreciated.
Thanks.

Thanks for the replies...
Interesting one this. I thought I would phone apple first and ask them. The helpful lady on the other end told me that the discs were indeed the correct ones. Apparently the MACBOOK PRO discs contain drivers for the whole family of recent Apple Systems.
So armed with this new knowledge I bit the bullet and installed Vista. ....
All seems to be fine and dandy. The install went through without a hitch, Apple drivers went on fine. Everything seems to be in working order. Upon closer inspection the wrong ATI card has been listed under display properties but to all intents and purposes the graphics are working. I can update the drivers in windows myself anyhow.
My new question is this... How do I tell whether the version of Leopard I was bundled with would be perfectly fine should the Mac need a reinstall of OSX? I get the impression I got away with it for Bootcamp but I have doubts, due to the wrong graphics driver, that I actually have a useable set of discs should the worst come to the worst.
I am thinking of arranging a trip to a Genius bar to hopefully clarify but Apple tech support said I was good to go, and I hate calling Apple a liar.
If anyone has any knowledge on this it would be greatly appreciated. Are there any files or documents on the disc that would confirm its usage?

Restore with TM using new Leopard disc

I’m looking to restore my crashed white Macbook from Time Machine with a new retail Leopard disc.
I’ve installed a new harddrive and currently have Tiger on it – I had stupidly forgotten that my Macbook came with Tiger and that a tech guy at my former job had installed Leopard when it crashed a couple of years ago.
Unfortunately I never got the disc from him, so I bought a new Leopard disc and I’m wondering what the best way is to go about restoring my system, and if there’s a difference not having the original disc that my backed up system comes from.
1. Should I erase Tiger before i start - if so how?
2. Should I install Leopard and after that restore from Time Machine?
3. Or should I boot from the disc (press ”C” when booting, right?) and do the ”restore from backups” in utilities?
Bit of a noob at this, obviously, so any help would be much appreciated.
Thanks.
/Dan.

Spinza wrote:
I’m looking to restore my crashed white Macbook from Time Machine with a new retail Leopard disc.
I’ve installed a new harddrive and currently have Tiger on it – I had stupidly forgotten that my Macbook came with Tiger and that a tech guy at my former job had installed Leopard when it crashed a couple of years ago.
Unfortunately I never got the disc from him, so I bought a new Leopard disc and I’m wondering what the best way is to go about restoring my system, and if there’s a difference not having the original disc that my backed up system comes from.
1. Should I erase Tiger before i start - if so how?
no.
2. Should I install Leopard and after that restore from Time Machine?
no.
3. Or should I boot from the disc (press ”C” when booting, right?) and do the ”restore from backups” in utilities?
yes. that's the way to go in your situation. the retail disk you are using will work just fine for you.
Bit of a noob at this, obviously, so any help would be much appreciated.
Thanks.
/Dan.

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