Hi, today, i got the new snow leopard and started installing it to my 20 inch imac, that was previously running OSX 10.5 (leopard).
The installation was going fine when it started raining and the power went out. I was relaxed because i knew about the new power failure feature in the snow leopard installation (supposedly it should continue installing after you turn it back on after the power failure).
So i switched my computer back on. It took about 2 minutes (way more than usual to load) and the installation screen reapeared. A window came on saying "Mac OS X can't be installed on this computer. This disc requires that Mac OS X 10.5 or later already be installed on your computer". I find this weird because i am running 10.5. on my mac. Only two options are given in this window "restore from backup" (which i dont have) and "restart". Every time i click on restart, the computer restarts and the same thing appears. I cant click on any option on the menu bar, and there is no dock, so i cant do anything, i cant even eject the cd.
The only think i can think of to fix this is to open the mac equivalent to MS's BIOS. But i dont know how to.
Please help! i dont know what to do!
The installation was going fine when it started raining and the power went out. I was relaxed because i knew about the new power failure feature in the snow leopard installation (supposedly it should continue installing after you turn it back on after the power failure).
So i switched my computer back on. It took about 2 minutes (way more than usual to load) and the installation screen reapeared. A window came on saying "Mac OS X can't be installed on this computer. This disc requires that Mac OS X 10.5 or later already be installed on your computer". I find this weird because i am running 10.5. on my mac. Only two options are given in this window "restore from backup" (which i dont have) and "restart". Every time i click on restart, the computer restarts and the same thing appears. I cant click on any option on the menu bar, and there is no dock, so i cant do anything, i cant even eject the cd.
The only think i can think of to fix this is to open the mac equivalent to MS's BIOS. But i dont know how to.
Please help! i dont know what to do!