netfox Posted June 24, 2007 Share Posted June 24, 2007 I have JAS 10.4.8. When I boot, and run the install image; I get, after a succesfull DVD check, the following error during installation (from the installer log): "Install Failed: The following install step failed: run preflight script for Essentials". What could be the problem? And solution...? More from the installer log: "CFPropertyListCreateFromXMLData(); plist parse failed; the data is not proper UTF-8. The file name for this data could be:\n /System/Installation/Packages/Essentials.pkg/Contents/version.plist\n The parser will retry as in 10.2, but the problem should be corrected in the plist.\n" Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/55152-run-preflight-script-for-essentials-failed/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
netfox Posted June 25, 2007 Author Share Posted June 25, 2007 Not a familiar problem? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/55152-run-preflight-script-for-essentials-failed/#findComment-395105 Share on other sites More sharing options...
sarahbau Posted June 25, 2007 Share Posted June 25, 2007 It's not exactly the same as a problem I ran into once, but it looks kind of similar. The problem for me ended up being that the disk had the wrong partition type. I needed to change it to MBR, and then it worked. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/55152-run-preflight-script-for-essentials-failed/#findComment-395173 Share on other sites More sharing options...
netfox Posted June 28, 2007 Author Share Posted June 28, 2007 You mean the harddrive or the DVD? I have made a second DVD copy with TOAST (the first one was made with NERO). But I've got the exact same problem with this second copy. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/55152-run-preflight-script-for-essentials-failed/#findComment-396811 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mac OS X Lover Posted December 26, 2007 Share Posted December 26, 2007 netfox, I think sarahbau means the hard drive. I am also getting this same error on a Dell Latitude D600 while trying JaS OS 10.4.8 AMD Intel SSe2 SSe3. I tried installing this many times - all times except one, I got the same error message that you got "run preflight script for Essentials failed". The one other time, I got the error "Partition type not MBR". The Disk Utility that comes with the disk I am trying to install is not capable of creating MBR partition schemes. So I installed Linux on the hard drive, partitioned the drive into two - one as ext3 and the other as FAT32, then tried installing OSX86. This time I was able to erase the partitions to "Mac OS Extended (Journaled)". But I am still getting the "The following install step failed: run preflight script for Essentials" error. Does anyone know a fix? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/55152-run-preflight-script-for-essentials-failed/#findComment-552262 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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