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Hi, I'm not new to macs but am having trouble installing 10.5.2 macbook pro disks onto my late 2008 unibody macbook. I have lost the original macbook installer disks that came with it.
Already installed and running fine, but bought a new HD and want to install onto that.
So I'm trying to install with a macbook pro 1.1 install disk, which I thought should work. I try to boot from disk using cmnd+C and this is what happens:
Boots, chimes, grey screen for 20 secs, black screen for 5 secs... repeat indefinitely, install never starts, have to power down.
I've tried doing this from disk with the newly formatted new drive installed, with the old system drive installed, and also by running installer from desktop... always same result.
I've upgraded RAM to 4GB, so have tried both with the 4GB in and with the original 2GB in.
I have tried PRAM and NVRAM clear. Seems to work, power light flashes, although doesn't beep like on my older macs.
I have tried booting using option key. This lets me choose drive, but still install doesn't work, just keeps rebooting again.
I have tried booting into open firmware. This doesn't work, just keeps reboots again.
I have repaired permissions.
No luck with the install doing any of this. Is it the install disk? If not, any suggestions?
Thanks
Already installed and running fine, but bought a new HD and want to install onto that.
So I'm trying to install with a macbook pro 1.1 install disk, which I thought should work. I try to boot from disk using cmnd+C and this is what happens:
Boots, chimes, grey screen for 20 secs, black screen for 5 secs... repeat indefinitely, install never starts, have to power down.
I've tried doing this from disk with the newly formatted new drive installed, with the old system drive installed, and also by running installer from desktop... always same result.
I've upgraded RAM to 4GB, so have tried both with the 4GB in and with the original 2GB in.
I have tried PRAM and NVRAM clear. Seems to work, power light flashes, although doesn't beep like on my older macs.
I have tried booting using option key. This lets me choose drive, but still install doesn't work, just keeps rebooting again.
I have tried booting into open firmware. This doesn't work, just keeps reboots again.
I have repaired permissions.
No luck with the install doing any of this. Is it the install disk? If not, any suggestions?
Thanks