Mac OS X 10.5 install hangs?

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I have a PowerBook G4 with a brand new hard drive, superdrive and RAM. It has a 1.33MHz processor speed and is fully compatible with Mac OSX Leopard in all of its specifications. I have tried two separate installation discs (both retail, one version 10.5 and one 10.5.6) and both hang at a grey screen with the pinwheel. I have left it for over an hour and it doesn't change.

To be sure it wasn't just a disc problem, I tried the disc in an intel iMac and another PowerPC of the same specifications. The iMac booted the disc correctly, whilst the PowerPC (with Tiger installed) prompted me to restart, then hung in exactly the same place.

I have tried everything I can possibly think of and lots of recommendations by Apple, and nothing has worked. I've reset the PRAM, the PMU and the Open Firmware, all to no avail.

 Please could anybody with any information help me out?

SpkrBox850 · Accepted Answer

Yaaa the 1.33Ghz ppc G4 PowerBook IS totally compatible with 10.5.x

The only thing I can think of is the hard drive may be partitioned for a ppc partition scheme as opposed to the GUID that Leopard requires.
Have you tried booting directly from the disc and doing a clean install? 
To do that:
-Put in the disc and but just shut down the computer right away.
-Turn it on and immediately push and hold the C button until you see the circle thing in the middle of the screen.
-Select language
-On the top bar click 'Utilities>Disk Utility'
-Click the hard drive on the left (not the partition)
-Click the 'partition' tab
-Down on the bottom to the left it should say 'Options...', click that and select 'GUID Partition Table'
-On the top left from the drop down click '1 Partition'
-Click 'Apply'
-After its done press 'Command + Q' and it should bring you back where you left off at the installer screen.
-Try installing it now.

If its still giving you problems, hit me up on Yahoo Messenger or Mail if you want:
SpkrBox850@Yahoo.com

Good Luck

**EDIT**
Oh ya and you can't use the 10.5 disc that came with another Mac because it doesn't have the ppc architecture drivers.
It has to be a the kind of retail disc that would have been purchased by itself.

SilverTonguedDevil · Answer

I don't have the solution, but PLEASE don't do what that other guy says. You DON'T need GUID for a PPC Mac. GUID is for an Intel Mac. Your Apple Partition Map is fine. For that matter, nothing about the HDD can affect booting to a DVD. How could your HDD partition scheme stop the DVD from booting? Geeze.

You said "the PowerPC (with Tiger installed) prompted me to restart, then hung in exactly the same place." Aha! If two different PPC Macs hang at the same point, it seems these discs are not suitable. What is the label design of these two retail discs? Are they originals, copies of originals, or burned from torrent downloads? Is one either a copy of the other or both are copies of one other disc?

Another test for hardware:
Restart and hold the option / alt key for 30 seconds. Do you get the Startup Manager screen with the two arrow icons? Let it just simmer there for a couple of minutes to be sure nothing freaky happens. Then put the OS install DVD in and wait ten seconds. Does the DVD icon appear? Select it and press Return.

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