The day began beautifully. Besides being quite sick with the flu, I was home in bed, trusty 2.2Ghz Macbook Pro with 4GB Ram and a fancy Leopard disc. All was well with the world.
I stuck in this magical disk, dreaming of spaces, stacks and time machines. I sat through over an hour of the most boring install screen ever…I know, simplicity and all but damn, give me something, a feature slideshow? Drying paint? Growing Grass? Geeeze. Anyways, back to the story….
An hour or so later, it was ready to reboot. I said yes and let it go, it spit out the Leopard disc and a few minutes later…drumroll……..nothing.
I had a, yes…get ready….blue screen of death. Of course it was a Mac so it had to be fancier. It was a blue background with a usable black cursor that did nothing. There was no hard disk activity or any signs of life besides the cursor mocking me. I rebooted it verbose and it ran through a mile of text before smashing me headfirst into the same blue screen.
I rebooted and tried to shift to safe mode, nothing. I held down command-s to enter single user mode and that worked, I tried to repair the disk, repair permissions, nothing worked. I installed again with the exact same results. I exhausted all of Apple’s tech support options with no luck.
Finally I decided to just do the archive and install mode to get a clean install and finally my Leopard roared to life. It was of course missing all of my software so I spent the next few hours installing applications just to be safe. I moved my parallels images, music, photos, documents and stuff over, of course I had to go into unix and display hidden files to even be able to see them as they existed under another profile. It really was a total nightmare. I started around 3pm and I quit with a 95% back to normal computer around midnight.
After surfing the forums I found this to be a quite common occurance amont Leopard installers. How could something this big be missed?
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