Path: csiph.com!weretis.net!feeder6.news.weretis.net!feeder.usenetexpress.com!feeder1.iad1.usenetexpress.com!216.166.98.84.MISMATCH!border1.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!buffer1.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.earthlink.com!news.earthlink.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2017 12:24:43 -0600 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 References: <180220171111393467%nospam@nospam.invalid> <68mdnSAn_tErfTTFnZ2dnUU7-RPNnZ2d@earthlink.com> From: Ant Organization: An Ant Farm Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2017 10:24:43 -0800 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:49.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/49.0 SeaMonkey/2.46 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <68mdnSAn_tErfTTFnZ2dnUU7-RPNnZ2d@earthlink.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: Lines: 44 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 45.50.15.139 X-Trace: sv3-nzWksc19Qulai0jQbo1idB2FKChEAJj5wn3KkSiwLC/wBPNXCDOngeBRNmBSoEcjGdQXhLqPO2UYRoY!3jjrdg49pJlsx/8j1TC3dwtcLOYeqCMc+35l5TiNhtP3fcdVv/Ju8xCFMv307Z3oB2VHKTNBFJK6!7Da+Vnq74lrZEMZyMiTEEE/Q4HQ/Xg== X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 3753 Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.mac.portables:1114 comp.sys.mac.system:100669 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? :( -- "Did the ant fall off the toilet seat because she was pissed off?" --unknown Note: A fixed width font (Courier, Monospace, etc.) is required to see this signature correctly. /\___/\ Ant(Dude) @ http://antfarm.ma.cx (Personal Web Site) / /\ /\ \ Ant's Quality Foraged Links: http://aqfl.net | |o o| | \ _ / If crediting, then use Ant nickname and AQFL URL/link. ( ) Axe ANT from its address if e-mailing privately.