I was running 10.3.7 and decided to try and put tiger on
my iMac. I took out the hard drive and stuck it in my g4 to
install tiger (since my iMac doesnt have a dvd drive)
installed tiger to it and put it back into the iMac. Didn't
boot (flashing from happymac folder to blinking question
mark folder). Put in panther install CD and it started
booting from there just fine. I went into system
preferences and chose the recently installed tiger os to
boot from. restart and no go. same blinking
questionmark. so i figured that tiger was just a no go, so I
reinstalled panther, same blinking question mark, so i
installed the os8 that came with the iMac. Nope, same
blinking questionmark. Tried a different hard drive and
installed os, no, same thing. Other things tried, reset
pram, cuda, took out battery for over 10 minutes, reset
firmware, tried to reinstall firmware but it said it was up to
date. The drive is a 6GB drive and the second drive I tried I
formated to 2 partitions, the first being less than 8GB.
Early on I checked and the 6GB booted my g4 ok. It boots
off the CD fine everytime. Any help would be greatly
appreciated. I cant think of anything else to try. I hope its
just something stupid Im not thinking of. Thanks DG
my iMac. I took out the hard drive and stuck it in my g4 to
install tiger (since my iMac doesnt have a dvd drive)
installed tiger to it and put it back into the iMac. Didn't
boot (flashing from happymac folder to blinking question
mark folder). Put in panther install CD and it started
booting from there just fine. I went into system
preferences and chose the recently installed tiger os to
boot from. restart and no go. same blinking
questionmark. so i figured that tiger was just a no go, so I
reinstalled panther, same blinking question mark, so i
installed the os8 that came with the iMac. Nope, same
blinking questionmark. Tried a different hard drive and
installed os, no, same thing. Other things tried, reset
pram, cuda, took out battery for over 10 minutes, reset
firmware, tried to reinstall firmware but it said it was up to
date. The drive is a 6GB drive and the second drive I tried I
formated to 2 partitions, the first being less than 8GB.
Early on I checked and the 6GB booted my g4 ok. It boots
off the CD fine everytime. Any help would be greatly
appreciated. I cant think of anything else to try. I hope its
just something stupid Im not thinking of. Thanks DG