FYI - just to inform of the solution I
found:
If you boot up off the Snow Leopard
install DVD and fire up Disk Utility, you can pull up a display of both
partitions (the Mac HD and Checkpoint’s PPE_BOOT) on the drive
display. The PPE_BOOT partition’s display contains a “this
partition cannot be erased” note; however, while you may not be able to _erase_ the partition, you can sure as heck
_delete_ it. After (a)
verifying the Mac HD partition was identified as the Startup Device and (b) deleting
the PPE_BOOT partition, I was able to install Snow Leopard without further
incident.
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Floyd Dennis, RPMS Database Administrator
Office of Information Technology
Indian Health Service
email@hidden
From: fed-talk-bounces+floyd.dennis=email@hidden
[mailto:fed-talk-bounces+floyd.dennis=email@hidden] On Behalf Of Dennis, Floyd B (IHS/HQ)
Sent: Friday, October 15, 2010
4:58 PM
To: email@hidden
Subject: [Fed-Talk] Checkpoint uninstall
issues
Ok, here’s my situation:
I had Checkpoint Full Disk Encryption for Mac loaded onto a
MacBook running Leopard (OS X v10.5) for about a year or so. Everything
was running fine – no noticeable performance hit, even – until I got
the notion of upgrading to Snow Leopard (OS X v10.6). I then fell into
the following cascade:
1. Tried to run the Install on the Snow Leopard DVD,
which would not identify my HD as a boot drive suitable for OS upgrade.
2. Contacted Checkpoint technical support, who told me
I would have to uninstall Checkpoint FDE to perform the OS upgrade.
3. Went through the uninstall process. Hard
drive was successfully unencrypted, and the uninstall process told me to reboot
to complete the process.
4. Rebooted. System comes up fine, but a window
is displayed (a) fussing that it can’t connect to the Checkpoint daemon,
and (b) telling me to reboot again.
5. Multiple reboots do not correct the problem.
The Checkpoint Management Console icon is still present in the menu bar, but
selecting any of the dropdown options results in a pause that never ends while
the Checkpoint MC waits for a response from a daemon that never answers.
6. After a week or so of this, fire up Terminal and
start searching around the hard drive. Find and run an uninstall script
in the /usr/local/ppe* directory tree (think it was in bin). Checkpoint
MC is removed from the menu bar, and the startup warning messages go away.
7. Once again attempt to run Install from Snow Leopard
DVD, which now shows two partitions/volumes – my Mac HD, and a second
partition named PPE_BOOT. Still unsuccessful selecting either, though:
7a. Attempt to select the Mac HD partition, and I still get
the “not a boot drive” message – even after selecting it as
the Startup Disk and rebooting.
7b. Attempt to select the PPC_BOOT partition, and I get a
message the partition is too small to support installation of Snow Leopard.
8. Fire up Disk Utility to get a closer look at each
partition. By the way, the utility tells me removal of the PPE_BOOT
partition isn’t even an option (“can’t delete
partition”).
I really would like to get Snow Leopard running on this
system before v10.7 comes out, but I’d like to avoid a full system
wipe-and-rebuild if at all possible. That option just strikes me as being
way too Windoze-ish.
Suggestions…?
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Floyd Dennis, RPMS Database Administrator
Office of Information Technology
Indian Health Service
email@hidden