Restart holding the option key and choose repair partition. Repair then reboot and you should be ok. The issue is the 10.7 was not installed on the iMac so it's missing hardware drivers and such for the unit. Now the pram is confused so resetting the pram can't hurt. Last thing is hopefully you didn't try and install 10.7 over 10.5 cause if you did your gonna be pretty screwed.
Sent from far far away On Feb 25, 2013, at 8:03 PM, "ben kernan" <[email protected]> wrote: > This evening I was trying to setup a new folder for Escape Velocity Nova on > my external hd & noticed that I had the option of booting from the partition > which contains the CCC backup for my wife's laptop, which contains 10.7... > Since my 24"iMac has 10.5.8, I thought this would be an easy way to be able > to use Lion without paying it upgrade. So I restarted from the external... > things seemed to be going well, got to the apple screen, then grey screen > with a lot of garbage on it with a message telling me to restart in 4 > different languages. After trying to restart 3 times with the same result, I > am at a loss as to how to get back to 10.5 0n the internal drive. any > thoughts on this perplexing & possibly dumb action on my part. > iMac is 10.5.8, 2.4 cd2, 750gb internal 2tb external 4gb ram. > > Sent from my iPad > > -- > -- > You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group > for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. > The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette > guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To leave this group, send email to [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "iMac Group" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- -- You received this message because you are a member of the iMac Group, a group for those using Apple iMacs and eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To leave this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "iMac Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
