Installing OS X 10.3 tonight and ran into this problem. I was installing to a 30Gb disk that used to have a copy of slackware on it so when I ran the installer I had to run the disk utility and erase the old disk. Once I resumed the install I received the error message:<\/p>\n
“You cannot install Mac OS X on this volume. You cannot start your computer from this volume.”<\/p>\n
After scratching my head for several minutes and re-trying the disk utility a couple times I decided that maybe it simply needed a reboot. Sure enough a reboot using the 10.3 install CD’s cured the problem. I hate non-descript errors, if a piece of software is not going to perform a function due to a problem it should tell you WHY. Anyway, easy enough fix.<\/p>\n
EDIT Oct 26 2008: I experienced this issue again tonight while configuring a software raid on a G4 Tiger machine. After the raid was initialized I simply rebooted the machine and entered setup again, the installer allowed me to install on the raid partition after that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Installing OS X 10.3 tonight and ran into this problem. I was installing to a 30Gb disk that used to have a copy of slackware on it so when I ran the installer I had to run the disk utility and erase the old disk. Once I resumed the install I received the error message: … <\/p>\n