Although I never really did find out why I couldn't get my PowerMac to successfully boot from my Jaquar Install Disc; I was able to boot off a (newly purchased) Panther Install Disc. I now have Panther installed on one internal hd and Tiger on another internal hd. I wanted to post this in the...
I followed all those steps and I still can't get Jaguar to load. It seems that you may be right about Tiger writing something into the firmware that prevents the Jaguar CD to load. Is anybody experiencing anything similar?
I don't have any new third-party hardware connected to my powermac other than the new hard drive. I even removed the extra ram I installed and left the 512 stick that came with the computer.
I wiped the drives clean again and installed Tiger on the hard drive I was originally trying to install...
I have a PowerMac G4 Dual 1.42 MDD "FW 800". I have two internal hard drives installed. I had recently performed a clean install of Tiger on one hard drive. The installation was smooth and solid. I wanted to install Jaguar on the other hard drive so I can have the option of booting into Jaguar...