[dawho9]

OK, so this one is pretty strange.

I grab my Leopard DVD and put it in. After the language page it pops up with two drives. My current OSX partition and my BootCamp partition. Both cannot have an upgrade. They have an explanamtion mark and say they cannot be upgraded. I click on options and it gives me an option to erase the drive.

So I hit cancel thinking maybe the 12.4 GB of free space isn't enough for the upgrade so I cancel out of the install to boot back into tiger. However, when I reboot it starts up, spins a little bit and than the computer turns off. I do this a few more times and nothing. I can successfully boot into Windows with no problems.

I try to boot back onto the DVD and go into Disk Repair and I get all sorts of strange errors but ultimately at the end it says that error filesystem verify or repair failed.

I can still boot into BootCamp with no problems I just cannot get back into OSX. If I launch the terminal and look under volumes I see my volume and can dig around it. I was half tempted to drop the Leopard install onto my boot camp partition so I could mount the drive and do a better backup (I just used the Apple Backup not thinking I would need it - kiss of death I know).

Any suggestions?

[Todd Madson]

I ran into a similar thing with a complete Leopard installation - my other internal boot drive with
a fully updated tested good Tiger install on it fails to boot and stays on the gray screen with the
rotating icon as long as I care to wait for it. Something about the Leopard install did something
odd to the Tiger drive. I'll see if I can get it going later today.