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Re: Unable to boot up an old 15" MBP (2008)'s Mac OS X v10.5.8/LEOPARD...

Subject Re: Unable to boot up an old 15" MBP (2008)'s Mac OS X v10.5.8/LEOPARD...
Newsgroups comp.sys.mac.portable, comp.sys.mac.portables, comp.sys.mac.hardware, comp.sys.mac.system, comp.sys.mac.systems
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From Ant <ant@zimage.comANT>
Organization An Ant Farm
Date 2017-02-19 10:24 -0800
Message-ID <N6CdnclU74B2fzTFnZ2dnUU7-InNnZ2d@earthlink.com> (permalink)

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On 2/19/2017 10:15 AM, Ant wrote:
> On 2/18/2017 10:33 AM, Ant wrote:
> ...
>>> in any event, boot from an external hard drive that has a known good
>>> system. if *that* fails, it's probably hardware. if it works, then all
>>> you need to do is clean install.
>>
>> OK. I am going to have to see if I can install 10.5.x into an external
>> USB HDD with MBP's original DVDs.
>
> OK, back to work on this old 15" early 2008 MBP. There were issues I ran
> into with the external WDC 2 TB USB HDD with MBP's Mac OS X v10.5.2 DVDs:
>
> 1. It didn't want to see the drive, but eventually it worked. Weird.
> 2. It did not like the partition setups like my FAT32, so I had to redo
> it with its HFS Journal.
> 3. I couldn't reinstall into the old MBP's HDD with its installed and
> updated Mac OS X v10.5.8 because of the versions (can't install older
> over newer). So I would have to wipe it if I wanted to reinstall it.
> Don't have a newer Mac OS X version yet. I'll worry about it later. I am
> not touching the internal HDD yet.
>
> Currently, the installer is slowly verifying the DVDs are OK before
> installing the OS. Weird that I can't move my trackpad cursor. The video
> shows its status bar animating and percentage going up slowly though. I
> hope I don't run into more issues (always do :() and that this old MBP
> can boot from it too after it is done.
>
> To be continued...

Uh oh. MBP's display dimmed after and then went black (energy saving I 
assume from idling). I can't seem to wake it up. I don't know if is 
still running? I still feel heat from the keyboard and hear its fan(s), 
so it is doing something? I don't hear and feel the DVD spinning. How do 
I wake it up or even disable this monitor sleep during DVD installer? :(
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                Re: Unable to boot up an old 15" MBP (2008)'s Mac OS X v10.5.8/Mt. Lion... "David B." <DavidB@nomail.afraid.invalid> - 2017-02-21 10:04 +0000
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  Re: Unable to boot up an old 15" MBP (2008)'s Mac OS X v10.5.8/Mt. Lion... nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2017-02-18 11:11 -0500
    Re: Unable to boot up an old 15" MBP (2008)'s Mac OS X v10.5.8/LEOPARD... Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> - 2017-02-18 10:33 -0800
      Re: Unable to boot up an old 15" MBP (2008)'s Mac OS X v10.5.8/LEOPARD... nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2017-02-18 13:37 -0500
        Re: Unable to boot up an old 15" MBP (2008)'s Mac OS X v10.5.8/LEOPARD... ANTant@zimage.com (Ant) - 2017-02-18 14:19 -0600
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                Re: Unable to boot up an old 15" MBP (2008)'s Mac OS X v10.5.8/LEOPARD... Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> - 2017-02-18 16:44 -0800
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                Re: Unable to boot up an old 15" MBP (2008)'s Mac OS X v10.5.8/LEOPARD... Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> - 2017-02-18 18:27 -0800
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                Re: Unable to boot up an old 15" MBP (2008)'s Mac OS X v10.5.8/LEOPARD... Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> - 2017-02-18 18:58 -0800
      Re: Unable to boot up an old 15" MBP (2008)'s Mac OS X v10.5.8/LEOPARD... Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> - 2017-02-19 10:15 -0800
        Re: Unable to boot up an old 15" MBP (2008)'s Mac OS X v10.5.8/LEOPARD... Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> - 2017-02-19 10:24 -0800
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                Re: Unable to boot up an old 15" MBP (2008)'s Mac OS X v10.5.8/LEOPARD... Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> - 2017-02-19 11:54 -0800
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                Re: Unable to boot up an old 15" MBP (2008)'s Mac OS X v10.5.8/LEOPARD... nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2017-02-19 16:31 -0500
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                Re: Unable to boot up an old 15" MBP (2008)'s Mac OS X v10.5.8/LEOPARD... Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> - 2017-02-20 03:34 -0800
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                Re: Unable to boot up an old 15" MBP (2008)'s Mac OS X v10.5.8/LEOPARD... Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> - 2017-02-19 15:37 -0800
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                Re: Unable to boot up an old 15" MBP (2008)'s Mac OS X v10.5.8/LEOPARD... Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> - 2017-02-19 21:27 -0800
                Re: Unable to boot up an old 15" MBP (2008)'s Mac OS X v10.5.8/LEOPARD... dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) - 2017-02-20 19:26 +1300
                Re: Unable to boot up an old 15" MBP (2008)'s Mac OS X v10.5.8/LEOPARD... Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> - 2017-02-20 00:26 -0800
                Re: Unable to boot up an old 15" MBP (2008)'s Mac OS X v10.5.8/LEOPARD... Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2017-02-20 16:19 +0000
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                Re: Unable to boot up an old 15" MBP (2008)'s Mac OS X v10.5.8/LEOPARD... Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> - 2017-02-20 13:43 -0800
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                Re: Unable to boot up an old 15" MBP (2008)'s Mac OS X v10.5.8/LEOPARD... Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> - 2017-02-21 01:19 -0800
                Re: Unable to boot up an old 15" MBP (2008)'s Mac OS X v10.5.8/LEOPARD... Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2017-02-21 14:56 +0000
                Re: Unable to boot up an old 15" MBP (2008)'s Mac OS X v10.5.8/LEOPARD... Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> - 2017-02-24 11:30 -0800
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