Grey Screen with Grey Apple Appearing after installing Mac OS 10.5 Leopard

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Grey Screen with Grey Apple Appearing after installing Mac OS 10.5 Leopard

I just purchased a Macbook Pro that came with Tiger. I tried installing Leopard and it has taken over 2 hours and my screen is grey with a grey apple and I can't eject the CD or do any other functions on the computer. Has anyone experienced this before?

Macbook Pro, Mac OS X (10.5)

Posted on Jan 21, 2008 8:09 PM

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SteveLamb0

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Jan 22, 2008 9:46 AM in response to Koon4au

Hi

Any of the links at http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307005 helpful?

To eject the disk, try holding down the mouse key on startup.

Steve

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Apr 7, 2008 1:27 PM in response to Koon4au

I upgraded Tiger to Leopard Server and got stuck at a grey screen with a mouse cursor. This fixed the problem:

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=306857

Which refers to getting stuck at a Blue screen, but still worked in my case. Later the Server Setup assistant got stuck as well. But this was because the network settings were incorrectly setup such that DNS server referred to the server itself.

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