Hi all,
I have an iMac 17" 1.9GHz (PPC) 1.5GB RAM that had Mac OSX 10.5 installed on the original 160GB WD SATA drive. That drive failed and was replaced with a 500GB Seagate SATA drive.
I have tried installing OSX 10.3 & 10.4 on the new drive, but the slot-loading superdrive is not reading well. So I connected the iMac to a Macbook Pro (Intel) running OSX 10.5.8 via Firewire to install OSX 10.4 onto the iMac.
The Macbook Pro saw the firewire HD and asked to initialize it. I then created a new partition using the Apple Partition Map (Mac OS Extended (journaled)). The Macbook Pro also reads the superdrive in the iMac most of the time (every so often the drive ejects a perfectly good disc and then takes it the next time the same disc is inserted). I tried installing OSX 10.4 DVD onto the iMac's new internal HD using the DVD in the iMac superdrive AND in the Macbook Pro's drive and both times the installation was a "success" (according to the installation application running on the Macbook Pro). However upon rebooting the iMac I am greeted with the blinking ?/mac folder icon.
I then connected an older LaCie Firewire CDRW and, using a separate set of OSX 10.4 CDs, I tried to launch the installation program on the iMac. I tried both pressing "C" and holding down the option key at boot. When pressing "C", it took until just after the blinking ?/Folder icon appeared and then it detected and ran the firewire CDRW resulting in the CD booting up, the apple logo appears for a few seconds and then changes into the "prohibitory sign" / "no entry" or circle with a slash through it. It goes no further. When pressing the option key, it gives me the option of going forward with my only choice-"the Mac OS X Installation Disc", but I still end up getting the "prohibitory sign" logo after the apple logo.
Oh, two other notable things: First, when I have installed it thru the Macbook, I can access all the files on the target internal HD in the iMac (though I did notice a conspicuous lack of the BootX (it is a PPC iMac) in the System\Library\CoreServices folder after a successful "installation". Second, when I entered the Open Firmware on the iMac, I was able to use the command- dir hd:\ and see the folders & files on the internal hd, and the boot-device environmental variable was set to hd:,\\tbxi (the default)...still end up getting the blinking ?/Folder icon.
I'm stumped. Any ideas? Thanks in advance!
I have an iMac 17" 1.9GHz (PPC) 1.5GB RAM that had Mac OSX 10.5 installed on the original 160GB WD SATA drive. That drive failed and was replaced with a 500GB Seagate SATA drive.
I have tried installing OSX 10.3 & 10.4 on the new drive, but the slot-loading superdrive is not reading well. So I connected the iMac to a Macbook Pro (Intel) running OSX 10.5.8 via Firewire to install OSX 10.4 onto the iMac.
The Macbook Pro saw the firewire HD and asked to initialize it. I then created a new partition using the Apple Partition Map (Mac OS Extended (journaled)). The Macbook Pro also reads the superdrive in the iMac most of the time (every so often the drive ejects a perfectly good disc and then takes it the next time the same disc is inserted). I tried installing OSX 10.4 DVD onto the iMac's new internal HD using the DVD in the iMac superdrive AND in the Macbook Pro's drive and both times the installation was a "success" (according to the installation application running on the Macbook Pro). However upon rebooting the iMac I am greeted with the blinking ?/mac folder icon.
I then connected an older LaCie Firewire CDRW and, using a separate set of OSX 10.4 CDs, I tried to launch the installation program on the iMac. I tried both pressing "C" and holding down the option key at boot. When pressing "C", it took until just after the blinking ?/Folder icon appeared and then it detected and ran the firewire CDRW resulting in the CD booting up, the apple logo appears for a few seconds and then changes into the "prohibitory sign" / "no entry" or circle with a slash through it. It goes no further. When pressing the option key, it gives me the option of going forward with my only choice-"the Mac OS X Installation Disc", but I still end up getting the "prohibitory sign" logo after the apple logo.
Oh, two other notable things: First, when I have installed it thru the Macbook, I can access all the files on the target internal HD in the iMac (though I did notice a conspicuous lack of the BootX (it is a PPC iMac) in the System\Library\CoreServices folder after a successful "installation". Second, when I entered the Open Firmware on the iMac, I was able to use the command- dir hd:\ and see the folders & files on the internal hd, and the boot-device environmental variable was set to hd:,\\tbxi (the default)...still end up getting the blinking ?/Folder icon.
I'm stumped. Any ideas? Thanks in advance!
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