The Leopard installer has issues
Here’s a copy of what I posted to Apple’s support forums this evening:
I installed Leopard on 2 machines today. One was an upgrade install on a MacBook. Went flawlessly. No problems.
The next was a quad-core Mac Pro outfitted with a boot “drive” of two 250GB drives connected by RAID 0, a 320 GB backup drive, and another 250 GB drive. Put the disk in and double clicked the installer, but it rebooted back with the main startup drive. Tried again and got a crash and an error message telling me to hold down power to restart. Then it booted the DVD (I think I held down C to force this - it’s been a long night.
1) Tried upgrade installing on the RAID - told me the upgrade failed soon into the attempt (no obvious reason given - told me to contact the manufacturer). When I restarted to attempt installation again, the RAID had disappeared! Fortunately, I was able to tell it to boot off the backup drive (thank goodness for SuperDuper). When it rebooted into Tiger, the RAID was back as well.
2) Tried an archive install on the backup drive, failed with the same error.
3) Tried a new install on the extra drive (no system on it). Installed successfully. Rebooted. Got the BSOD (no cursor, just blue screen… occasional disk activity but waited over an hour with no progress. Rebooted, system did not start up. Rebooted into DVD.
4) Ran Disk Utility and repaired permission on boot RAID and backup RAID. When I went back to installer screen to select the RAID for installation, I got the spinning pinwheel. Forced the machine to shut down.
5) Removed all drives from computer except for backup drive.
6) Booted from DVD. Did archive and install onto backup drive. Success! Rebooted into Leopard!
7) Shut down and reinstalled remaining drives. Now in process of restoring Leopardized backup onto RAID.
Obviously, there are some serious install issues here. I did not have the Application Enhancer installed. Furthremore, my first BSOD was with an install onto a system-free drive. I have a feeling Apple is going to be recalling some installation disks.