Failed Leopard Install not cant start MacBookPro

Having just tried to install 10.5 from an install disk, the install failed (not sure why, but that's another question). Having exited out of the install, I can't restart into 10.4 - at the boot page (grey apple logo with timer thingy) the boot just hangs and then shuts down.
Any ideas how to kick it off again for a second try?
Cheers!

Archive and Install, When you boot back to Leopard and its asks where to install select the HD and then click options on the same page. There you select Archive and Install and saving preferences. Good Luck to ya

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Failed Leopard Install - Not Booting

I apologize in advance for the redundancy of my problem. But I've read all other post surrounding my problem but nothing has seemed to work.
After failing a Leopard Install, I tried to restore my HD using the boot disc. But it gets stuck on the grey apple screen. Then it asks for a restart manually. I believe it is related to a kernel panic, but I'm afraid I'm not too familiar with what that exactly is. Am I going to have to get more RAM or even take it in for service?
P.S.
I've tried reseting PRAM.
Holding (option) key during restart.
Pulling power cord, then reinserting and rebooting
rebooting with boot disc.
holding (C) key during restart.

Welcome to Apple Discussions!
How old is the G5?
When you are getting a restart screen is it the one described on my FAQ*:
http://www.macmaps.com/kernelpanic.html
- * Links to my pages may give me compensation.

Cannot restart after failed Leopard install

Attempted to install Leopard on iBook with appropriate processor speed. Installation fails. Reran installer and let DVD be checked. States problem with DVD. When I try to restart the computer, it will not restart. Spinning wheel just keeps spinning. I cannot get the DVD to eject.
I have already had to pay to have 24" iMac fixed after failed Leopard install, 2-3 hours trying to get through to Apple, and prior to posted comments on installation problems on the web site.
So far lousy product and very lousy service/support.

To eject the disc - http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=50991
Once you eject the disc, gently clean it before reinserting it. Some dvd drives are very fussy about the media.

Kernal panic after failed Leopard install

Was upgrading a MacMini from the installed 10.4 system to 10.5. The install reported a problem reading the DVD during the first phase of the install (when the DVD and platform was being analyzed) and before any install started.
Rather than removing the DVD, I went ahead and ran the install a second time, this time hitting SKIP during the first phase. This move the install to the actual install which tried to start but stopped after less than a minute again reporting a problem reading the DVD.
Since I wasn't sure how to eject the DVD from within the installer, I decided to boot using the 10.4 installed system. Within seconds (just after the apple logo was displayed) there was a kernal panic. A complete shutdown and reboot of the Mini failed to solve the problem and the panic occurred again at the same location in startup.
I got help on how to remove the DVD and, sure enough, it did have a water spot which I cleaned and re-ran the 10.5 install which was successful. I'm able to boot the new system with any panic.
I ran a repair disk just to make sure there wasn't some other problem that might have been unrelated to the failed install but no errors (other than a couple APL not found messages) were found.
My intent is to migrate from a G4, now also running 10.5 but this experience has left me a little concerned that there may be a problem on the Mini that may not have been resolved through the successful Leopard install.
Are there other tests or utilities I can run to get more comfortable that the panic is gone before I do the migrate?
Thanks
Tom

Use the Apple Hardware Test program that shipped with the machine and then follow up with running Rember. Once that's done, install Leopard and migrate from the G4, make a bootable backup/clone of the new installation, and then apply any subsequent updates.

Leopard & MacBook not even starting up. . . All messed up . . .

Hi. Im here on behalf of a friend.
There were some problems on his MacBook (saying he didnt have permissions to do basic things) so he took off the permissions for the whole Macintosh HD.
Now his computer will not start up at all. It will turn on but the apple sign and the spinning wheel keeps turning. After 5 mins of this the mac gives up and restarts only to do the same thing again. It will start up in target disk mode and im on my powerbook now trying to sort his computer out.
He has Leopard on his. I have the original Leopard install disk here. Is there anything i can do to make his computer run from Leopard and update it all.
He has tried booting from then Leopard disk but it says that its not the right Macintosh for this disk. . .
Any advice?
Thanks for your time. Ben

Hi. When your friend tried to boot from the installer disk, was that the Leopard disk he installed on his computer? Make sure that he is using the disk he installed in his computer. Another option is do a Safe Boot. You can do that by pressing the shift button after hearing the startup chime and keep on pressing it until the OS loads properly. If that doesn't work, you need to boot from the install disk or do a target disk mode and run repair disk and disk permission in the Utilities folder. You can also use Disk Warrior. If all fails, Archive and install while preserving the user and network settings. Good luck.

Failed Leopard Install , PLEASE HELP!!!!!

I have a MacBook Intel Core Duo , I have the ram to 2 gigs from and HD to 160 gigs from 80 gigs. I started the install.... I picked full erase & install. I ran the disk consistency check, which returned ok. The install starts 3 to 4 min into the install, I get the error message "Install Failed Mac Os X could not be installed on your computer. The installer could not validate the contents of the 'BaseSystem' Package. Contact the software manufacturer for assistance... click start and try installing again. Multiple attempts later same result. Replaced HD with original started install once again, I ran apple updater , update completed all ok. Started install , again checked disk for consistency.. it returned ok.
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JoeSam wrote:
bsgraupner wrote:
SOLUTION FOR GMAIL:
Apple mail automatically configures gmail in Snow Leopard and enters your username as [email protected] for the outgoing mail server.
Correcting your username in the OUTGOING mail server (by selecting edit outgoing server list) to be only "username" by removing "@gmail.com" fixes this issue.
Go Daddy accounts are still a problem... working on that now...
No - I'm afraid that didn't work for me. My SMTP settings for GMAIL include only my username/password and the recommended port for outgoing GMAIL SMTP (993) / USE SSL. Whenever I try and send a message, it hangs in the Outbox, and the spinning wheel spins in "Sent". This is only since upgrading to SL. Am about to get on the phone with Apple Care because this is really getting to be a PITA. I've never had a problem using my Gmail SMTP account in Mail before this upgrade.
OK - I seem to have fixed it on my end. Try this:
The default setup in the new Mail.app (4.0) wants to place SMTP for GMAIL on port 993. Change the selection from "Custom Port" to the default - i.e. "25, 465, 587". I know there are posts above that say the preferred port for SMTP is 993, +but see+ http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=78799. The SMPT settings clearly state which ports to use (465 or 587). When I selected the default option check box in the advanced SMTP settings in Mail, Voila! Sent Mail! Hope this helps you get your outgoing mail out.

Getting p2pp burn boot check failed.Windows 7 not getting started Recovery restpration completion

PLEASE HELP
Hi,I am trying to do factory recovery of my HP DV6 laptop using original HP recovery disc.My laptop has Windows 7 (64Bit) OS. I am doing below steps
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2. Checking BBApps.log for applications
3. Checking MEMDUMP_BBV.log for memory dump file
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See if you can run the startup repair:
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IMac G4 superdrive only reads DVDs after leopard install, not CDs-- HELP

I just installed leopard on my iMac G4 and now it only reads DVDs. It will not read CDs. I tried installing iLife and Office from CDs and it does not read them. However, it will play all DVDs just fine. Leopard itself seems to work amazing, only problem so far is the CD issue.
Has anyone else experienced this? Does anyone know how to fix this? I would really like to be able to read CDs as well. Any help is greatly appreciated.
Thanks

Same thing here. Superdrive keeps behaving erratically since Leopard upgrade. Doesn't burn DVDs (some error message saying it doesn't recognize the media). Managed to burn a CD only after full PMU reset but doesn't read CDs anymore (burnt a blank CD on a iMac at work and my mini says the CD is blank). Reads movie rental DVDs ok though (but I don't care, I just want it to work).
Same sort of thing happened to me last year whilst running Tiger. Apple changed the Superdrive. That very model of Superdrive is a piece of rubbish and it looks like Apple will have to change it again. Very glad I tool the 3-year Applecare warranty.
So much for the "it just works", hey?.

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Ok, so I bought a used Macbook Pro about 9 months ago. As soon as Leopard came out, I upgraded. It ran flawlessly until about 2 months ago. I kept getting random freezes, "ATSServer" errors, and a bunch of other random problems. I decided a fresh install was definitely the way to go.
So I backed all my stuff up and erased the drive (no zero out). Naturally, I installed Leopard on a OS X Extended Journal format. When the installation was finished and the computer restarted, it sat at the boot screen (the grey Apple logo with the spinning thing underneath it). Instead of booting, it just restarted and did the same thing again. It continued to do this and was clearly not going to boot into Leopard.
I tried installing again under the same format (OS X Extended Journaled). It did the same thing.
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So I erased again and tried installing on a Journaled drive (non-case sensitive)... it did the same thing as before. Kept restarting at the boot screen and continued this in a never ended cycle.. would not boot.
So I tried a Mac OS X Extended partition (non-journal and non-case sensitive). Leopard installed and this time it got past the boot screen. Went to a blue screen... then got hung up on a blank grey screen!
So basically:
OS X Extended Journaled: Restarts continually and will not get past boot screen.
OS X Extended Journaled Case-Sensitive: Works perfectly! But cannot install my most necessary Applications on this format.
OS X Extended: Gets past boot screen but stuck at a grey screen right before OS X actually boots.
As I said, I haven't tried installing on a zeroed out drive yet (it is zeroing out the drive right now), but do you think this could even have anything to do with the problems I'm having?
It just doesn't make any sense to me... Why the **** would it work on case sensitive, but nothing else? Hard drive problem? I thought it was the logic board, but it ran absolutely PERFECTLY when on a case sensitive format.
It is out of warranty, and even if I did have AppleCare, I NEED this computer for work. I CANNOT afford to send this in anywhere to get repaired.. and I really cannot see it being a hardware issue because like I said, it works PERFECTLY on a case sensitive partition, but will not boot on a Journaled or plain Extended partition.
I'm crossing my fingers that zeroing it out will work, but ***?
Thanks.

Did you get the disks the machine shipped with? If not, call 800-MY-APPLE and order replacement disks. Should be available for a nominal S&H charge. If so, boot with the one containing the Apple Hardware Test suite and run the extended tests. If it passes, download Rember and run its tests. If the machine passes, then you've probably ruled out any hardware issues. After the disk is zeroed out, try installing, only selecting the Mac OS Extended format and ensure that you choose the GUID partition map scheme. Journaling can be turned on and off with Disk Utility, so you don't need it for preparing the HD. BTW, the Erase & Install will automatically erase the HD (just deletes the directory) and turn on journaling.

Snow Leopard fails to install - Tech Support and Genius Bar can't fix it

I am having an exceedingly difficult time installing Snow Leopard. I have tried everything I can think of and tech support AND the Genius Bar have failed me so far.
The Details:
Every time I install SL it starts off well but sometime between 18 minutes remaining and 6 minutes remaining it fails. I get an error message that says there was an error that prevented installation. Looking in the installer log gives me a little more information. It usually has 15 or so errors, the last of which is always a very long line saying some package failed to install/unpack/be copied. The odd thing is that the file name is different every time.
So far I have tried:
Repairing the disk and installing
Installing from a different install DVD
Installing from external hard drive at the Genius Bar
Installing using RAM borrowed from the Genius Bar
Wiping the HD completely. I erased all my partitions and tried to install on a completely blank hard drive with a single HFS+ partition
I can only think of a few things that can cause the install to fail: DVD, optical drive, RAM, files on HDD, and HDD hardware. I think I've eliminated all those possibilities except HDD hardware. Changing that on a MacBook isn't trivial and I don't have one handy. Also I would think a HDD problem, or any hardware problem, would cause all sorts of errors and with the exception of this the machine has no serious problems and apps crash only occasionally. I've had no system crashes for as long as I can remember.
I have a Time Machine back up and have successfully restored my old Leopard System onto the MacBook (twice now) so at least I have the option to just give up on SL if I want to. As an aside, restoring from TM went well but not perfectly. Next time I install an OS I will be making a disk image backup. Does anyone else have any ideas? If you solve this problem I'll be eternally grateful and very impressed.
Thanks in advance
Jay

I'm sorry. I should have answered when you asked about RAM the first time. I have 2GB. I have tried installing with that, and I tried installing with RAM at the Genius Bar. I don't know how much the guy used at the Genius Bar.
Last night I restored from time machine so I currently have Leopard installed on the machine. After the restoration my email archive is little strange, I had to re-authorize iTunes and various other annoyances pop up but it runs without any problems.

Installing Mountain Lion from Snow Leopard, Install failed and HD write-locked

I recently downloaded the mountain lion installer from the App Store and I ran the installer. Stupid person as I am, I did not have any backups for my file and I naively assumed that an apple OS installer would be without flaws. Boy, was I wrong. I need every bytes of my data (or close to every bytes) but the installer failed.
Mid installation, the installer stopped and said that the installation failed and that I need to repair my disk. So I restarted the computer and I ran disk utilities (my start up disk was the OS installer and the installer allows me to run several programs, including terminal, disk utilities, and by the way, when I held option while starting up to see which start up disks I have, I only had the OS installer as the start up disk. Also, the installer allows me to run a program called "Startup Disk" when I click on the apple logo on the top left corner, but it doesn't allow me to startup my computer using Macintosh HD) and noticed that when I highlighted Macintosh HD, my "Repair Disk" button was grayed out. So first things first, I ran the "Verify Disk" button but after a minute or so, Disk Utilities said that verification failed and that Macintosh HD needs to be repaired. But the "repair disk" button is grayed out! So I went to the Mountain Lion installer again and ran it. Of course, it failed again so I restarted the computer.
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After some research, I noticed that some people's computers worked after they reset their PRAM. So that's what I did. I held command+option+P+R when computer started up and I reset the PRAM. When the start up disk (which is the OS installer, not the normal operating system) loaded, I was greeted with choose languages option and then I was back in the Mountain Lion installer state. I again ran the installer again, hoping something would be different, but then it was different. But not in a good way. When I was told to choose where I would like to install Mountain Lion, I noticed that Macintosh HD was grayed out. Last time, I was at least able to run the installer but this time, Macintosh HD was grayed out. The installer said that my Macintosh HD was locked. After some research, I learned that apparently, the Mountain Lion installer write-locks Macintosh HD mid installation.
So now I am stuck and I am thinking of two things (plus some questions)
1. I am wondering if there is a way to unlock Macintosh HD. But even if I can unlock Macintosh HD, there is no guarantee that the installer will successfully install Mountain Lion, am I right?
a. so how can I un-write-lock Macintosh HD?
2. More realistically, I am thinking of borrowing someone else's macintosh computer and use it as the backup center. I have a firewire cable and a terrabyte external hard drive. So what I'm thinking is that I'll hook my computer in target mode to my friend's computer and I will also plug in my external hard drive to my friend's computer and then I can download and run Carbon Copy Cloner from my friend's computer to copy all data from my Macintosh HD to my external hard drive. And then I will erase my Macintosh HD, freshly install Mountain Lion onto it and then copy all data back from my external hard drive. But I am not sure about few things.
a. it looks like my Macintosh HD is write-locked. Can I still use Carbon Copy Cloner to copy all data from Macintosh HD (in target mode) to my external hard drive?
b. will my computer allow me to erase (or format) Macintosh HD?
c. will my erased/formatted Macintosh HD able to install + be installed Mountain Lion OS?
If you are here, then you have read my long long problem. Thank you very much and I would really really really appreciate your answers and opinions. Thanks

I'm not sure where you read that about the disk being "write-locked." That doesn't make much sense, given that the major task an installer like this must achieve is writing a whole bunch of files to the hard drive. I think your source was mistaken.
As to what happened, it sounds like your hard drive was badly corrupt to start with, or possibly was on the edge of failing and is now in the process of dying entirely. If you don't have backups of your data, that does not bode well for you, unfortunately. If you can manage to use target mode to copy your data, do that.
Once you're sure you've got all your data, you need to start up from your Snow Leopard install disk and repair the hard drive. (Since it sounds like the Mountain Lion installer didn't work, I wouldn't trust the recovery partition that Mountain Lion installs.) Or, even better, just erase the hard drive entirely and reinstall Snow Leopard. Then, once you're back up and running, with all your data back on the system and with Snow Leopard updated to the most recent version, try installing Mountain Lion again. If any of that fails again, the problem is likely to be a dying hard drive, and you'll need to replace it.

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Disk Description : Hitachi HTS541612J9SA00 Media Total Capacity : 111.8 GB (120,034,123,776 Bytes)
Connection Bus : Serial ATA 2 Write Status : Read/Write
Connection Type : Internal S.M.A.R.T. Status : Verified
Partition Scheme : GUID Partition Table
I have 77g of storage space left so that is not it. I am new to Mac so I am not familiar enough with the file structure to get all my files. Even if I was, after the install attempt, I cannot see my network drive to do the backup. Hooking the drive directly to my Mac initiates a message to format my external drive. I have a ton of info on it so I have been backing it up to my Vista machine for most of the morning. Any ideas?

After backing everything up and attempting a clean install, I finally got it to run, but not without a fight. I started teh install and had to erase teh drive. I expected that this time. The erase was successful and it continued on. About 5 minutes into it I got a new error that stated that it failed because it could not create a folder on the volume. I restarted the machine and held down the "C" key on boot. Leopard installed without a hitch. Running nicely now. I will say that I am disappointed at how much trouble I had to go through to get to this point.

I cant start xfce4.4 installed from shadowhands repo

well i installed xfce4.4 like 1 week ago but im not able to start is as normal user , it just starts loading but then stops and shows the desktop wallpaper (the tiny rat with green background), and does nothing , then i tried starting it as root user and it loaded up everything.
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xauth: creating new authority file /home/rdoggsv/.serverauth.5592
X Window System Version 7.0.0
Release Date: 21 December 2005
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 7.0
Build Operating System:Linux 2.6.15-ARCH i686
Current Operating System: Linux bulletproof 2.6.16-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Mon Apr 24 23:11:22 CEST 2006 i686
Build Date: 20 March 2006
Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org
to make sure that you have the latest version.
Module Loader present
Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
(++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Mon May 1 18:14:00 2006
(==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf"
The XKEYBOARD keymap compiler (xkbcomp) reports:
> Warning: Type "ONE_LEVEL" has 1 levels, but <RALT> has 2 symbols
> Ignoring extra symbols
Errors from xkbcomp are not fatal to the X server
/opt/xfce4/bin/startxfce4: X server already running on display :0
Agent pid 5648
libGL error: open DRM failed (Operation not permitted)
libGL error: reverting to (slow) indirect rendering
** (xfwm4:5664): WARNING **: The display does not support the XComposite extension.
** (xfwm4:5664): WARNING **: Compositing manager disabled.
(xfdesktop:5670): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_paint_layout: assertion `style->depth == gdk_drawable_get_depth (window)' failed
(xfdesktop:5670): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_paint_layout: assertion `style->depth == gdk_drawable_get_depth (window)' failed
(xfdesktop:5670): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_paint_layout: assertion `style->depth == gdk_drawable_get_depth (window)' failed
(xfdesktop:5670): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_paint_layout: assertion `style->depth == gdk_drawable_get_depth (window)' failed
(xfdesktop:5670): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_paint_layout: assertion `style->depth == gdk_drawable_get_depth (window)' failed
sh: fortune: command not found
maybe this can help as i have no idea what my problem may be, i looked in the forums for this problem but found nothing.
thanx in advance
rdoggsv

emma wrote:Try using xfce4-session instead.
same problem
xauth: creating new authority file /home/rdoggsv/.serverauth.6094
X Window System Version 7.0.0
Release Date: 21 December 2005
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 7.0
Build Operating System:Linux 2.6.15-ARCH i686
Current Operating System: Linux bulletproof 2.6.16-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Mon Apr 24 23:11:22 CEST 2006 i686
Build Date: 20 March 2006
Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org
to make sure that you have the latest version.
Module Loader present
Markers: (--) probed, (**) from config file, (==) default setting,
(++) from command line, (!!) notice, (II) informational,
(WW) warning, (EE) error, (NI) not implemented, (??) unknown.
(==) Log file: "/var/log/Xorg.0.log", Time: Tue May 2 10:30:19 2006
(==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/xorg.conf"
The XKEYBOARD keymap compiler (xkbcomp) reports:
> Warning: Type "ONE_LEVEL" has 1 levels, but <RALT> has 2 symbols
> Ignoring extra symbols
Errors from xkbcomp are not fatal to the X server
** (xfwm4:6122): WARNING **: The display does not support the XComposite extension.
** (xfwm4:6122): WARNING **: Compositing manager disabled.
(xfdesktop:6128): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_paint_layout: assertion `style->depth == gdk_drawable_get_depth (window)' failed
(xfdesktop:6128): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_paint_layout: assertion `style->depth == gdk_drawable_get_depth (window)' failed
(xfdesktop:6128): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_paint_layout: assertion `style->depth == gdk_drawable_get_depth (window)' failed
(xfdesktop:6128): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_paint_layout: assertion `style->depth == gdk_drawable_get_depth (window)' failed
(xfdesktop:6128): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_paint_layout: assertion `style->depth == gdk_drawable_get_depth (window)' failed
sh: fortune: command not found
but i noticed at least there is no more the X running warning.
:'( ill try installing the official xfce4 to see what happens
** Edited: **
Ok the problem its not xfce4.4 from shadowhands repo , i installed xfce4 from the official archlinux repo and i cant start the xfce4.2 , it does the same thing , starts and shows the wallpaper and the mouse pointer , but then nothing.

Leopard failed to install

I bought the family pack for Leopard. I installed Leopard on my G4 laptop fine. When I tried tried to install on my G5 I got a fail to install due to a source problem (?)
In any event I restarted from the Tiger hard drive and it's totally screwed up my computer. It tries to start and I get initial Apple logo for about 2 seconds then it locks up and I get a bunch of computer code.
I have no idea what to do.
Dan

Hi! Holding the mouse button down when you power it up should eject the disc however if you were trying to upgrade over Tiger and not do a clean install you may have created a lot of the problem if you did not check for compatibility of your installed stuff. Application Enhancer is NOT compatible and if it was installed then that may have caused the problem. If you get the disc out it might start in Tiger but I wouldn't bet on it. The error could also be a dirty lens in the dvd drive. You might clean it and get it to working. It sounds as if the dvd isn't reading correctly. You may be able to use firewire target disk mode to another computer and install via it. Tom

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