Leopard Installation Nightmare - Mac Pro

I have a Mac Pro running 10.4 with plain vanilla everything (hardware and software). I started an upgrade install with Leopard today (so excited!) only to have it abort when it was nearing completion of the DVD verification phase. When it rebooted, the old OS (10.4) could no longer boot from the hard drive, and the Leopard DVD had no luck mounting it. I tried a repair from the DVD with no luck -- all I got was a "Checking catalog; keys out of order; Repair or Verify Failed; First Aid failed" string of errors. When I try to boot from the hard drive I just get the Apple and spinning circle for 3-4 minutes until the system shuts down.
Help! Please! I don't want to delete and entire drive of personal files!

Here's a thread you might want to check out.
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1212243&tstart=0
Its a collection of information talking about about how to prepare for a successful install.
There's also a collections posts from people (from these forums) talking about how they solved their install problem, or how they had a successful install. Should be helpful if you're motivated to read through it.

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Hi all. I have upgraded to 10.6.8 Snow Leopard on my Mac Pro but still cannot connect to App store to upgrade to Mountain Lion. Any advice?

Hi all, I have upgraded to 10.6.8 Snow leopard on my Mac Pro but still cannot connect to App store. I want to connect to upgrade to Mountain Lion but ony get the message "you are not connected to App store" or "Check your internet connections, error -52". My internet is working OK for everything else.Any advice?

Then I will have to assume a faulty installation.
Reinstall OS X without erasing the drive
Do the following:
1. Repair the Hard Drive and Permissions
Boot from your Snow Leopard Installer disc. After the installer loads select your language and click on the Continue button. When the menu bar appears select Disk Utility from the Utilities menu. After DU loads select your hard drive entry (mfgr.'s ID and drive size) from the the left side list. In the DU status area you will see an entry for the S.M.A.R.T. status of the hard drive. If it does not say "Verified" then the hard drive is failing or failed. (SMART status is not reported on external Firewire or USB drives.) If the drive is "Verified" then select your OS X volume from the list on the left (sub-entry below the drive entry,) click on the First Aid tab, then click on the Repair Disk button. If DU reports any errors that have been fixed, then re-run Repair Disk until no errors are reported. If no errors are reported click on the Repair Permissions button. Wait until the operation completes, then quit DU and return to the installer.
If DU reports errors it cannot fix, then you will need Disk Warrior and/or Tech Tool Pro to repair the drive. If you don't have either of them or if neither of them can fix the drive, then you will need to reformat the drive and reinstall OS X.
2. Reinstall Snow Leopard
If the drive is OK then quit DU and return to the installer. Proceed with reinstalling OS X. Note that the Snow Leopard installer will not erase your drive or disturb your files. After installing a fresh copy of OS X the installer will move your Home folder, third-party applications, support items, and network preferences into the newly installed system.
Download and install the Mac OS X 10.6.8 Update Combo v1.1.

Can I use Tiger and Snow Leopard on my Mac Pro?

I have a 3 year old Mac Pro with 2 internal hard drives installed by Apple at the time of purchase. At present, I'm using Tiger 10.4.11. I've purchased Snow Leopard (The Family Pack with 5 licenses) and have installed it on my MacBook Pro.
I haven't put Snow Leopard on my Mac Pro since it is my main, workhorse computer and I have several older applications that aren't compatible with Snow Leopard.
My question is: Can I install Snow Leopard on my second internal drive and leave Tiger on the main drive? That way I could use either system by changing the start-up drive to the system I want to use. Is this possible, or advisable? Will it work or cause problems?
Another question: If one of the drives needs repair, could I boot up in the other drive and run Disk Utility to make the repairs instead of booting the computer from the original software CD? (I'm having a problem finding the original Tiger 10.4 System CD in my organizationally challenged graphic design and illustration studio.)
Thanks for any help anyone can offer.
Specs:
MacPro1,1
Dual-Core Intel Xeon (Intel)
2.66 GHz
Two hard drives each with two 512 MB RAM chips
Bay 1: Intel 232.89 GB drive
Bay 2: Intel 465.76 GB drive

Been hiding or not backing up and keeping bootable spares?
http://www.shirt-pocket.com/SuperDuper/SuperDuperDescription.html
http://www.bombich.com/software/ccc.html
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Installing Leopard on a Mac Pro

As I am a bit of a scaredy cat, I have put off installing Leopard on my Mac Pro. This is a work machine and although I have another G5 that is perfectly usable if this machine went belly up I have still not bit the bullet so to speak... until now.
I'd like to install Leopard and wanted to do what I usually do which is a complete erase and install rather than the standard migration. I have always had problems with this and so this is my preferred route. Since the Mac Pro comes with 3 extra bays in which to put hard discs, am I able to put in a new drive start up the mac from a Leopard install disc and install Leopard on this drive. Or does it always install to the drive in bay one. My ideal set up would be to have both operating systems and install all the apps I use on Leopard in a methodical way, testing as I go along. This was how I migrated from Panther and I am happy to do this although it does take a little longer.
Another solution is to do a migration as well I guess to see how this would go. Can a migration be done from the internal drive in bay one or would I be better off Carbon Copy Cloning my Tiger disc to an external drive and using this instead. Since the drives are so easy to swap in and out I figured this is an option, but don't know.
The only other thing is I use the new Adobe CS3 apps which require internet enabling. I can have 2 versions of say After Effects at a time on 2 different macs. I can install on a third but have to disable one on one of the others. If I have AE installed on both Leopard and Tiger on the same machine does this mean I have to disable it in Tiger before I switch to the other Leopard install. Confusing isn't it.
Anyway hope some of you more technical people out there can help with some of these questions
all the best
Rich

Since the Mac Pro comes with 3 extra bays in which to put hard discs, am I able to put in a new drive start up the mac from a Leopard install disc and install Leopard on this drive. Or does it always install to the drive in bay one. My ideal set up would be to have both operating systems and install all the apps I use on Leopard in a methodical way, testing as I go along. This was how I migrated from Panther and I am happy to do this although it does take a little longer.
The drive bay doesn't matter. You can install onto any drive,
Another solution is to do a migration as well I guess to see how this would go. Can a migration be done from the internal drive in bay one or would I be better off Carbon Copy Cloning my Tiger disc to an external drive and using this instead. Since the drives are so easy to swap in and out I figured this is an option, but don't know.
You can use Migration Assistant to migrate from internal drives. It is safest to just migrate data, not applications. Install the latest versions on the applications.
The only other thing is I use the new Adobe CS3 apps which require internet enabling. I can have 2 versions of say After Effects at a time on 2 different macs. I can install on a third but have to disable one on one of the others. If I have AE installed on both Leopard and Tiger on the same machine does this mean I have to disable it in Tiger before I switch to the other Leopard install.
It depends on how Adobe does it. If they just look at the hardware configuration, you could activate the new copy without affecting the old one. If they look at the version of OSX, or the disk drive, you may have to deactivate the one you aren't using before it will let you activate the other.

Snow Leopard installation on Mac Mini has failed

Hi,
Does anyone know whether Snow Leopard checks what hard disk is installed in order to satisfy installation requirements as I've fitted an SSD Hard Disk Drive in my Macintel Mac Mini and installing Snow Leopard has failed (no longer boots into any Operating System previous nor upgraded. (Mac OS X 10.5.8 previously installed)).
Thank you for any advice.
Best Regards.

It may not have anything to do with a new drive installation. Snow Leopard has just "bricked" my Intel Mac Mini hard drive - the original one. The first attempt at installation failed, so I tried an erase and instal. It seemed to work - briefly but when I tried to restore apps and settings from a Time Machine back-up it "hung" with only one minute of restoration to go. Now the HD appears to have failed, since it is unable to find any system folder and booting up via the Snow Leopard disc and bringing up the disc utility shows a greyed-out HD drive.
Some people on the MacBook Pro forum report a similar problem with the hard drive after Snow Leopard installation.

Option to boot into leopard has disappeared mac pro/boot camp

I have a mac pro. running the latest version of leopard. quad core xeon 2.66 w.4 GB of RAM. Runs like a dream. Sadly, however, I absolutely had to run a windows program natively. So I dutifully went out and bought a copy of vista, installed it via boot camp, and went merrily on my way. Booting in and/or out of either OS, as warranted, was perfectly smooth. Then I had a few weeks away from work, and when I returned, it was as if leopard had vanished. Starting up I found myself in windows. Odd, as I had the defaults set to open in MacOS. So I restart, holding down the option key. No MacOS. Only windows. Then I see that Vista is yelling at me cuz I have yet to "activate" it and I now apparently have a fake OS. So I activate the *****, all goes well, my fake copy is now miraculouslt genuine again. So I restart again, holding down the option key, and no change from before. So I do it again only this time I zap the PRAM first, and THEN hit option, and same thing, windows only. So I go into windows looking for the Boot Camp Assistant control panel thingie, guess what, it aint there. So I go to startup and recovery options in Windows (control panel, system, advanced) and attempt to reset the default to Mac, only there is no Mac option. OK so now I am perplexed as ****. So I do a system restore in windows, to a restore point just a couple weeks ago when I am, in fact, quite sure that everything worked. and I could boot into and use either OS with ease. Once it restores and restarts, I'm back in windows AGAIN but now it says my OS is a fake (again) and I have to activate it (again) and STILL no sign of Mac OS or boot camp assistant or anything like it anywhere. I dont wanna do anything else cuz now I am seriously afraid I am gonna f* it all up even more. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE help. I am doomed. Where did my leopard go? What do I do? How do I fix this? THANK YOU IN ADVANCE FOR SAVING MY ABOUT-TO-BE-MEANINGLESS life...

There is a chance you somehow programed your machine to boot to Windows only. To undo this you need a functional Boot Camp Manager. You can repair the Boot Camp Manager using your OSX install DVD - WHILE IN WINDOWS. (Just boot to Vista and shove the DVD in the optical drive - then the re-installation of Boot Camp Drivers and BC Manager can begin).
Before you do that - right-click My Computer then click Explore. Click local disk (C). Next click Program Files and Boot Camp should be about 5 or 6 items down (alphabetically) Click Boot Camp then kbd.mgr (KeyBoard Manager) IF THIS activates Boot Camp Keyboard Manager you'll have no problems choosing an OSX reboot option. NOTE - in my own case, clicking kbd.mgr only prompted the tray icon to appear (which for me is great because I can right-click that icon to access the Boot Camp controls....) but it might work either way.
If it is gone / broken - then find and Click your Set Program Access and Defaults and then Click Change or Remove Programs. You might still have enough of your old Boot Camp Install there left to start a repair (without the DVD). Just locate Boot Camp Services and Click "Change" and repairs will begin.
Anyway - using the Boot Camp Manager you can force a reboot to OSX just by choosing. Good luck.
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Password latest Leopard installation nightmare

After much difficulty, I now have Leopard (10.5)installed on my PB. However, the "login" screen does not recognize my name/password combination(s).
Yes, I did the "password reset" after booting from the Leopard retail disk. Apparently, what I put in does not match my "keychain." I assume that's why I get a login screen?
I've tried again booting from the Leopard disk (perhaps to run Disk Utility or again reset passwords) but for some reason holding the C key during start-up no longer boots from the disk. I've also tried connecting with FW to a MacPro as FW target (holding T key) but this also no longer works.
Booting from the disk and booting as a FW drive on the MacPro both worked previously. Can't figure out why it no longer does?
In summation......
1. I'm getting a login screen because the password is different from my keychain?2. Leopard does not recognize my name/password combinations (even though I reset them right before rebooting)
3. I'm no longer able to boot from the Leopard disk (retail version) nor as a FW drive on a MacPro.
Incidentally, I reset the RAM chips but that hasn't helped.
What could I possibly be missing?
Hope your New Year is happier than mine thusfar and I greatly appreciate any time you devote to trying to help me.
Terry D

Terry: Can you connect the Powerbook to the Mac Pro in FireWire Target Disk Mode and back up all the important files from the PB's drive onto the MP's drive? If so, do that. Then boot the Powerbook to the Leopard DVD in the external FireWire optical drive, and use Disk Utility on the DVD (it's in the Utilities menu in the Installer application) to partition the PB's drive using the Apple Partition Map (do not use the GUID partition map) and create a single Mac OS Extended (Journaled) partition. Then install Leopard onto it.
If you can't back up the PB's drive to the MP's in Target Disk Mode, you'll have to remove it from the PB and connect it directly to the MP via an external enclosure or USB adapter to back up the files. Then put it back into the PB and proceed as I've outlined above.
Don't involve the MP in the installation of Leopard on the PB — without hashing over all the details, I'll just say I suspect a lot of your problems may have arisen from the way you did that the first time.

Is this creative suite or leopard causing my mac pro to freeze, quit and not sleep?

I hav recently bought a high end mac pro and leopard and I am lucky if I get 30 minutes before the whole system freezes. Tried re-installing in a different hard drive on the pro - same problem. If I put the computer to sleep, 80% of the time when I return, it has shut down. Actions in CS3 are deleted. Everything is a bit random and I can not work it out. Running disk utility, from the computer and disk produces this:
ACL found but not expected on Applications/Utlities
""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" on Applications
""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""" on Library
Permissions repair complete
All software is up to date. I do have some plug-ins that are supposed to be cool with this system.
Can anyone help or do I have to return this computer?

On 3/9/08 2:16 PM, in article [email protected], "[email protected]" <[email protected]> wrote: > Permissions repair complete > > All software is up to date. I do have some plug-ins that are supposed to be > cool with this system. > > Can anyone help or do I have to return this computer? Sounds like the logic board is malfunctioning, reading and writing in the wrong places to the HD. Try a Safeboot [hold down shift key] and see if the problem persists. If not, then you have a plugin problem most likely. Also, do this first: boot holding down cmd-S keys. When you drop into Unix, at the prompt, type fsck -fy keep the space between the commands. Let it run and see what happens, but because it happens on both drives, it sounds more like the logic board or wiring in the system is on the blink. If it is new, should be under warranty... Jeff ~~~~~~~~~~~~ Jefferis Peterson, Pres. Web Design and Marketing http://www.PetersonSales.com

How do I reinstall Leopard on my mac pro from my mac book pro?

How do I reinstall my Snow Leopard os into my mac pro from my mac book pro? I have the disks, both run on Snow Leopard. I am have a grey screen problem and nothing has fixed it yet, so I was told to reinstall in from another computer because when I tried to load from disk to mac pro the mac pro would start to load, but then stop at the same place.

Once you get it to work, be sure to download and apply the lastest SL COMBO updater. for 10.6.8 (or any later version). This will ensure that the latest drivers & such for that newer hardware gets installed and the resulting OS can run optimally.

Uninstall Leopard from new Mac Pro

Got a brand spankin new Mac Pro at work which was thrilling until it became obvious that nothing works with Leopard (which is what came on the Mac). Too many of our vital apps won't work with Leopard (read Adobe CS2) and the boss isn't prepared to update everything to be compatible with Leopard, plus it's not even possible to update some of them.
So what is the least painful way to get Tiger on this computer?
We don't own an external drive.

Hello,
Unless you have a copy of Tiger for Intel, you cannot do it. The "off the shelf" version of tiger is for the PowerPC. If you can get ahold of a Mac Pro Tiger reinstall DVD set, then you could try to do an erase and install of tiger. I am not sure if you are going to see any issues or not with Tiger on the new hardware. I would guess not, but you never know.
Ebay might be a good place to look for a mac pro reinstall dvd.
Just pop in the dvd, press and hold "C" before the computer chimes and it should boot to the CD, after that it is as easy as apple.

Can I install leopard on new mac pro intel machine

This machine came with Snow leopard on it but it is conflicting with a USB 3.0 card I have been trying to install.
I THINK it is conflicting because I have a similar card on a 2009 Mac Pro intel,
running Leopard and I have not had one issue since installing IT, many months ago.
So I thought I would put in a new HD (larger 2TB) and start a fresh install and go down to the Leopard so the USB 3.0 PCI card will work!
When I do the reboot to instal from the disc, it just sits on a grey screen for 15 min before I gave up.
I replaced the Leopard disc with a Snow Leopard disc and the boot from disc went as normal.
So..........

Like I said, issues.
You and many others:
http://www.macworld.com/article/1165672/add_usb_3_0_to_a_mac_pro_with_highpoints _rocketu.html
50-50 here:
http://www.amazon.com/HighPoint-RocketU-Quad-USB-3-0/product-reviews/B005K8AXN6
Allegro doesn't fare much better:
http://www.amazon.com/Sonnet-Allegro-2-Ports-Macintosh-USB3M-E/product-reviews/B 0054D8G0E

Installing Leopard on a Mac Pro with Snow Leopard

I have several applications that are not yet compatible with Snow Leopard, I've just bought a Mac Pro 8 core and It comes with snow leopard, is there a problem if I install Leopard 10.5.8 on the Mac Pro and migrate all my information from my Mac Book Pro ?

There is a problem, unfortunately. A Mac can't run an older version of OS X than the version that shipped with it. See here: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2186
En Español: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT2186?viewlocale=es_ES

Installing Snow leopard on my Mac Pro

While waiting for Snow leopard to load/ install, It seemed to just stop and then gave a message that the disk could not finish installing.
After repeated attempts to eject the install disk, I finally got it to eject and to attempt restarting. However, now
All I see is a flashing image of a folder with a question mark on it. My Mac Pro will not progress from this point

It may have encountered Bad Blocks on the destination drive.
If you have good backups, it may be prudent to erase the drive with the Erase -- "Zero all data" Security Option, which tells the drive to insert spare blocks for any found to be bad after writing Zeroes.
If you do not have good backups, you should seriously consider buying a new drive to install your new OS on. And maybe a second one for backups.

Windows 7 will not boot after installation on mac pro

I have a mac pro 2006, and wish to install windows7 on another internal drive, when I follow bootcamp to the point where it says load installation disc for windows 7, it tries to load, but then I get an empty folder with a question mark in it. So then I tried an install on just an internal hard drive not using bootcamp, this time it seems to do a full installation, but when it tries to restart I get a mac symbol, with a no entry sign, any help please.

I can boot in windows safe mode, but, I cannot restart or finish the installation,
for diskutil list i got
#:                       TYPE NAME                    SIZE       IDENTIFIER
   0:     FDisk_partition_scheme                        *500.1 GB   disk0
   1:               Windows_NTFS                         500.1 GB   disk0s1
/dev/disk1
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   0:      GUID_partition_scheme                        *2.0 TB     disk1
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   2:                  Apple_HFS Hitachi 1000 master     1.7 TB     disk1s2
   3:       Microsoft Basic Data Windows                 279.1 GB   disk1s3
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diskutil cs list
diskutil: did not recognize verb "cs"; type "diskutil" for a list

Sound issue under Snow Leopard with a Mac Pro

Hey guys
I have Snow Leopard installed on my Mac Pro 4.1 (latest version).
So far so good... But I have one - annoying - issue.
The sound control works well (using my usb Apple Keyboard or the wireless one) until the mac goes to sleep. So if I "suspend" then "resume" , the sound wont be controllable anymore.
When I use the volume keys, the OSD shows what's supposed to happen ( i.e the volume changes on the OSD ) but my soundcard (the internal default one) volume isn't affected unless I reach the real minimum on the OSD at which point the sound is muted.
When I use the "volume +" button well.... The sound goes back to a certain level but never varies.
The only fix I found so far is to change the output to Internal Speaker then back to Line output (dunno the exact translation my system is in french).
I tried resetting the PRAM, deleting the audio preferences plist files ..
any idea?

Apple Software Update 10.6.1 fixed my issue

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