Yesterday I bought the Leopard install disc and loaded it up. When I tried to install 10.5.6, the installer told me that I couldn't install that version on my hard drive. I assumed it was because I only had 1 gb free, so I quit the installer and restarted so that I could free up some space. That's when the problem began...
The gray startup screen came on, but then the little circle icon just spun and spun for a few minutes, then the mac shut down. I looked up some solutions on another machine. I tried selecting a startup disc, zapping the pram, etc. No good. I started in verbose mode and it said something about an invalid sibling pair, and the last command I saw was something like 'CPU end'
I ran the disc utility from the OS X system disc, and it was unable to verify the drive.
So what the heck did the OS X installer do to my hard drive? Did it corrupt the catalog? I quit the installer, so it shouldn't have touched it. Any ideas would be much appreciated.
(the worst part is that my super duper smart update wasn't working properly, so I need to get the data off that hard drive or I lose 2 years of work
The gray startup screen came on, but then the little circle icon just spun and spun for a few minutes, then the mac shut down. I looked up some solutions on another machine. I tried selecting a startup disc, zapping the pram, etc. No good. I started in verbose mode and it said something about an invalid sibling pair, and the last command I saw was something like 'CPU end'
I ran the disc utility from the OS X system disc, and it was unable to verify the drive.
So what the heck did the OS X installer do to my hard drive? Did it corrupt the catalog? I quit the installer, so it shouldn't have touched it. Any ideas would be much appreciated.
(the worst part is that my super duper smart update wasn't working properly, so I need to get the data off that hard drive or I lose 2 years of work