[ebeaudio]

Hello,

I've been researching my problem here for a few days and can't find the solution. I own a 1GHz Powerbook G4 and am attempting to install 10.5 and find no mounting internal drive at the 'Select Volume' installation prompt. Furthermore, when I proceed to Disk Utility, I find my internal volume, yet there is no subsequently nested icon/partition tabbed and below, like all other mountable volumes. I am unable to choose to 'Repair Disk...', the microscope icon for 'Verify' does nothing (although it visibly processes for a second), and I can't repair disk permissions.

Upon clicking the 'Erase' tab and proceeding to 'Erase', i get... 'Disk Erase failed with the error: resource busy'. Selecting the 'Zero All Data' option provides me with the error of something to the effect of 'Cannot mount'. This is all taking place from a LaCie external DVD-R drive (my internal Super-Drive is f***ed), booting after the prompt to restart whilst being Logged In from the drive in question. Target mounting the drive still yields nothing under the same exact circumstances, doing so from an X-Serve with a Combo-drive. In attempts to remedy this via reading threads, I came across the 'su' boot method whereby I could force repair the disk using '/sbin/fsck -fy' . This process tells me everything's OK... I try rebooting, same thing, go into Disk Utility, no different, Quit that, still no Volume... so what gives? I'm not sure what's up, as I have never run into this kind of problem in previous system updates since X. Please let me know anything you might know. Thanks!



PS, is this system update advised for my laptop? someone from the netherlands seems to be pretty peeved by its performance. At least he got it installed!

[Cipher13]

Just guessing here, but at the Disk Utility window (while booted from the CD), click "Partitions" and ensure there's actually a partition to work with. If there isn't, make one, then try again.

[ebeaudio]

Thanks for the reply. That yields the same 'resource busy' error... already tried that. I'm just wondering if there's a way to stop any said resources.

[Cipher13]

I actually had the exact same error when I attempted to do this yesterday. In the end I removed the NTFS partition and extended the HFS+J partition to take up all available space, then proceeded to format the drive, and it worked.

Very strange problem though, I've never seen it before Leopard. I wish I could be of more help.

Perhaps check out Apple - Support - Discussions - Forum Home ?

[ebeaudio]

Hi, thanks again, and glad to hear that I'm not the only one. Can you please tell me how you did that? Was it via command line? Or did you actually get the program to do it? If you could direct me to the command line method, that would be the best. Thanks!