After upgrading from 10.3.9 to 10.5 Leopard my mac will not boot from the hardrive even after I set up the hard drive as the boot disk after the upgrade. The mac will start to boot but then cut itself off. I have to leave the 10.5 disk in the drive and hold down C and that will only allow me to install the 10.5 software again. How can I force my mac to boot from the hard drive?
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Upgrade to Mac OS 10.5 Leopard 1
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Unfortunately, there can be many reasons for the problem. Most arise when the user selects the "upgrade" on the 10.5 installer rather than "archive and install" or a total wipe and install. This has been a problem for many who used the upgrade method. You did not mention how you installed nor what machine you have.
You also did not mention is you ran disk utility to check, and repair if necessary, your hard drive before installing the upgrade.
As a first check, try holding down the Shift key when you boot - starting the machine in "safe mode". If that works, you can try Apple menu/System prefs/System/startup disk. Select the hard drive, eject the installer disk and see what happens. If still stuck, try booting inot safe made again and check System prefs/Accounts/startup items. highlight each and hit the - button. See if you can then reboot ok.
If you still can't boot directly from the hard drive, try booting in safe mode again and go to hard drive.applications/utilities and launch disk utility. Check the hard drive for bad things and repair permissions. If the hard drive reports OK, try a normal reboot. If Hard drive problems are reported, boot form the 10.5 installer disk and open up utilities/disk utility and repair the drive.
You can also try resetting pram by holding down the command, option, p, r keys at boot. Hold them down until you hear the startup chime a second time.
All of this can drive you nuts. In many cases it's easier to put in your 10.3 disk, hit the Option button and do an archive and install. You might get a lot of warnings about replacing a new file. Choose replace. Boot normally and see if you're ok. If yes use software update to get all updates from Apple. Make sure you're ok. Then insert the 10.5 disk, click options and do an archive and install.
If you're fully backed up to an outboard disk, etc. you can also just use the 10.5 disk to do a total wipe and install.
Using OSX 10.3.9 on a G4 & G5
You also did not mention is you ran disk utility to check, and repair if necessary, your hard drive before installing the upgrade.
As a first check, try holding down the Shift key when you boot - starting the machine in "safe mode". If that works, you can try Apple menu/System prefs/System/startup disk. Select the hard drive, eject the installer disk and see what happens. If still stuck, try booting inot safe made again and check System prefs/Accounts/startup items. highlight each and hit the - button. See if you can then reboot ok.
If you still can't boot directly from the hard drive, try booting in safe mode again and go to hard drive.applications/utilities and launch disk utility. Check the hard drive for bad things and repair permissions. If the hard drive reports OK, try a normal reboot. If Hard drive problems are reported, boot form the 10.5 installer disk and open up utilities/disk utility and repair the drive.
You can also try resetting pram by holding down the command, option, p, r keys at boot. Hold them down until you hear the startup chime a second time.
All of this can drive you nuts. In many cases it's easier to put in your 10.3 disk, hit the Option button and do an archive and install. You might get a lot of warnings about replacing a new file. Choose replace. Boot normally and see if you're ok. If yes use software update to get all updates from Apple. Make sure you're ok. Then insert the 10.5 disk, click options and do an archive and install.
If you're fully backed up to an outboard disk, etc. you can also just use the 10.5 disk to do a total wipe and install.
Using OSX 10.3.9 on a G4 & G5
My understanding is that many of the upgrades to Leopard that had problems were because of 3rd party installation of utilities and haxies.
My recommendation on any upgrade of operating software is read the readme file first, 2nd do some maintenance on your mac, use OnyX or mainmenu and delete cache, repair permissions and so on. 3rd Run a disk utility like diskwarrior over your mac. 4th Update every utility and application you use or remove them, especially if they launch at startup.
If you cant do this or dont undersand an archive and install is the next best thing. I know this is advice after the horse has bolted so to speak, but its importsant to know for the future...good luck
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My recommendation on any upgrade of operating software is read the readme file first, 2nd do some maintenance on your mac, use OnyX or mainmenu and delete cache, repair permissions and so on. 3rd Run a disk utility like diskwarrior over your mac. 4th Update every utility and application you use or remove them, especially if they launch at startup.
If you cant do this or dont undersand an archive and install is the next best thing. I know this is advice after the horse has bolted so to speak, but its importsant to know for the future...good luck
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