Stuck on Apple logo when trying to boot from osx10.6 disc

[anonymous Mac Tech]

Sorry, but from my experience over the years, it does not eject the disk out if there is an issue with the drive itself. It will eject the disk sometimes if their is something wrong with media. And I do know there are various ways to find out and I gave him one. I run into bad superdrives very often on old Macs.

How old do you think a 27' iMac is? But what do I know...?

 

[Benchtech]

How old do you think a 27' iMac is? But what do I know...?

I purchased lion and made both a usb and a DVD the dvd worked great removed the old customers info and reinstalled just fine.

thanks everyone, even you AMT =)

 

[kevinjhaag]

Even if it was only 6 months old; you don't think a hard drive or superdrive could go bad just because its Apple. In reality it is still just a computer just like others except how its built. I admit that Apple usually uses higher quality components but that doesn't mean one can slip through the cracks or one could get mishandle after it has left the factory.
Hell, I bought a brand new Macbook Pro before and right away it got hot and it warped the case. Sent it in for warranty repair and received it back. It was not my original but most likely a new one. Again, it got hot and warped the case and also overheated the hard drive to the point of no return. Researching the issue I came to find out that this was very common with my model. Later there was a recall on power adapter. Then after that a recall on the battery.

So NO, from my experience its not impossible to get a faulty device. Again thats my experience. Yours mileage may be different.

A better question to the OP would be... Are you using a original Apple Dvd of OS X or are you using something you found off the internet?

 

[kevinjhaag]

Originally... Were you using a original Apple Dvd of OS X or were you using something you found off the internet? Before you bought Lion and installed it. Just curious.

 

[anonymous Mac Tech]

Even if it was only 6 months old; you don't think a hard drive or superdrive could go bad just because its Apple. In reality it is still just a computer just like others except how its built. I admit that Apple usually uses higher quality components but that doesn't mean one can slip through the cracks or one could get mishandle after it has left the factory.
Hell, I bought a brand new Macbook Pro before and right away it got hot and it warped the case. Sent it in for warranty repair and received it back. It was not my original but most likely a new one. Again, it got hot and warped the case and also overheated the hard drive to the point of no return. Researching the issue I came to find out that this was very common with my model. Later there was a recall on power adapter. Then after that a recall on the battery.

So NO, from my experience its not impossible to get a faulty device. Again thats my experience. Yours mileage may be different.

I wasn't arguing that superdrives in Apple computers never go bad. What I was arguing is that with the symptoms he was having with that machine using that disk, it was highly unlikely. Had he the correct build of OSX for that machine I would have said check the optical. It was pretty much a no brainer that it was an incompatible OSX version, but then again I see this kind of thing almost daily.

 

[kevinjhaag]

LOL...MacTech, I wasn't disagreeing with your suggestion. I was just giving him another suggestion to try while waiting around for install DVDs. If it didn't work, then I would have suggested what you did. I didn't know he had Lion to install.

 

[Benchtech]

Originally... Were you using a original Apple Dvd of OS X or were you using something you found off the internet? Before you bought Lion and installed it. Just curious.

Pirating is for Pizza Tech's I pay for all my software, the OSX 10.6 Disk I have is retail not the grey one that comes with the PC.

 

[bsil]

I know you solved this already, but here is something I have done (in the school I work at for my full time job).

I install a copy of the OS I want to use to an external USB/Firewire drive. On that drive I install Deploy Studio http://www.deploystudio.com/Home.html (it is free). It is an imaging software. Then I take an image of the external drive. Finally just boot off the external, and run deploy studio. Point it to restore the main mac hard drive with the image you just made.

It finishes. Reboot. Happiness.

 

[14049752]

I know you solved this already, but here is something I have done (in the school I work at for my full time job).

I install a copy of the OS I want to use to an external USB/Firewire drive. On that drive I install Deploy Studio http://www.deploystudio.com/Home.html (it is free). It is an imaging software. Then I take an image of the external drive. Finally just boot off the external, and run deploy studio. Point it to restore the main mac hard drive with the image you just made.

It finishes. Reboot. Happiness.

Like the method I mentioned, that would require an older machine. It'd be quicker and easier just to use target disk mode to install directly to the iMac's hard drive, then update.

 

[Benchtech]

Like the method I mentioned, that would require an older machine. It'd be quicker and easier just to use target disk mode to install directly to the iMac's hard drive, then update.

I already made an image of lion on my portable iOdd (virtual rom) so no more fuss.

iODD is now owned by Zalman VE100 i think is the model number best $80 I ever spent (now it's under $40 lol)

 

[bsil]

Like the method I mentioned, that would require an older machine. It'd be quicker and easier just to use target disk mode to install directly to the iMac's hard drive, then update.

The whole issue was the target disk not accepting his version of the OS. The install to the external bypasses that issue. It has allowed me to upgrade iMacs from leopard to lion without the issue of installing snow leopard first. I mean really if you own all the software why does Apple do this nonsense? They sell OSs for $40, so why jump people through hoops to upgrade? Why should I have to take a lab full of computers with an older OS through a revision prior to the one I want to install, just so I can install the one I want in the end? I mean, we own all the licenses, we had to in order to get Lion because we were one full revision behind. I just didn't feel like sitting there making an image of a machine that I had to install the original OS on, then upgrade once, then upgrade again before I could finally be on the OS I wanted. Anyway, it works, so I suppose just do it however you want. Just trying to make it easier.

 

[14049752]

The whole issue was the target disk not accepting his version of the OS.

No, the whole issue was the disc he was using was not compatible with his machine. Installing to an external would require a machine that can boot the 10.6.0 disc...his cannot...thus he would need an entirely different (older system) to use both methods suggested (mine and yours).

My point about my way being faster, target disk mode installs directly to the imac's hard drive... With BOTH of our methods, he would still need to install, update to at least 10.6.3... My way is just faster, because he's not cloning after doing all that.