MBP dies while updating - can't reinstall
After rebooting to finish the install for 10.4.7, all I got was a blue screen that stuck there. I could boot single user and lauch Finder as root from the console, but I couldn't boot it normally or log in normally. I tried just about everything under the sun, including all of the stuff from the Apple Support pages.
So, I gave up and decided to reinstall. I hit "Archive & Install" because I can't lose the data on it (yes, I have backups, but the more recent the better). It went through that, and then rebooted to install the stuff from Disc 2. While running the postflight script for iDVD, it just dies with "postflight[xxx]: no matching processes found" in the log and just sits there, forever. I tried reinstalling several times.
So I go back to the beginning and try to redo it all again. This time, it gets to running the install script for "Mac OS X" and sits there repeating "socket is not connected" in the log.
I gave up and just tried an Erase & Install, and the same thing happens every time. I can't even reinstall. I'm out of ideas.
MacBook Pro, 1.83 15" Mac OS X (10.4.6)
I am using the software that came with my MBP. I don't have any other. One of the first things I did was verify the disk with disk utility, and hardware test was okay. The 'verifying your installation media' part passes, and the 'verifying destination volume' part passes. I can see nothing physically wrong with the media, and I find it hard to believe the HDD suddenly failed right as I was installing 10.4.7.
Not trying to shoot you down, just hoping that it's software (which makes sense so far) because I don't have access to an Apple Retail Store and I don't really want to have to deal with sending it to Texas.
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