Hi all
I have a mac pro desktop running 10.5.6. I am in the process of reformatting my main internal hard drive. After backup and all was done. I popped in the OSX leopard install dvd like I have so many times before, opened up the disc, clicked 'install os x leopard' and expected it to do it's thing. It restarted my computer and sounded like it was reading the cd, after about 2 minutes it throws a faint black screen and the error message to restart my computer. A kernel panic error?
I've ruled out the hard drive. I booted up another hd i had laying around with os x on it, put the main hd in bay 2 and used disc util on the new hd to reformat the main hd as mac os x extended journaled and then switched the main hd back to bay 1 and tried to reinstall, it did not work. if the new hd is in bay 1 by itself it also will not boot from the cd just the same as my main hd does. The disc doesn't seem to have any problem being read on the desktop and having an icon at all so I can't see why the disc would be a problem, but I doubt it's the hard drive's issues since two of them react the same way.
any ideas?
I have a mac pro desktop running 10.5.6. I am in the process of reformatting my main internal hard drive. After backup and all was done. I popped in the OSX leopard install dvd like I have so many times before, opened up the disc, clicked 'install os x leopard' and expected it to do it's thing. It restarted my computer and sounded like it was reading the cd, after about 2 minutes it throws a faint black screen and the error message to restart my computer. A kernel panic error?
I've ruled out the hard drive. I booted up another hd i had laying around with os x on it, put the main hd in bay 2 and used disc util on the new hd to reformat the main hd as mac os x extended journaled and then switched the main hd back to bay 1 and tried to reinstall, it did not work. if the new hd is in bay 1 by itself it also will not boot from the cd just the same as my main hd does. The disc doesn't seem to have any problem being read on the desktop and having an icon at all so I can't see why the disc would be a problem, but I doubt it's the hard drive's issues since two of them react the same way.
any ideas?