I'm wondering about my Pioneer Drive

[GJCORNISH]

I hanging up installing Snow Leopard as soon as I swap the iboot for the install disk. I have a feeling as soon as Apple takes over it stops recognizing the drive. The drive just stops with the Apple onscreen. Any ideas?

 

[UtterDisbelief]

Hi there,

You don't mention which Pioneer drive but assuming it's a DVD writer and SATA I don't think that is causing your problems. Some Macs came with Pioneer drives and I've used them extensively.

Is it the dark Apple logo on a grey background?

If so try pressing Tab or Enter at boot time so you can switch to text mode and then select your SL drive and in the boot line put a -v This will show you where the boot is freezing etc.