Startup Disk Nightmare

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kbaumer

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Last month I tripped and smashed my Powerbook, destroying the hard drive. I ordered a new hard drive and installed it, then using target boot and another mac I formatted the new disk and installed Leopard. All of that seemed to work fine.

Now the powerbook can't find the startup disk. I've tried holding down option on startup. I've used disk utilty and repaired the hard drive. I'm pretty sure I've replaced the hard drive correctly since it can target boot and shows up in disk utility like normal.

What do I do to make the powerbook startup with the hd?
 
Would I be correct guessing that the 'other Mac' is an Intel Mac?
If you installed OS X on your Powerbook hard drive through Target boot from an Intel Mac, then the drive was probably formatted GUID. The PowerBook won't boot from a GUID format drive, and Startup Disk won't see it, either.
You can make sure about this by opening your Disk Utility. Click on your hard drive (the line with manufacturer's info, and not a line with a name that you have assigned to a partition), and check the info area for Partition Scheme. I suspect you will see GUID, when you should see Apple Partition Map.
If that is the case, then you have to erase the hard drive again, and install from a PPC Mac, not an Intel Mac. Doesn't the optical drive work on your Powerbook?
 
You are correct, and that must be the answer. My dvd drive is broken, so I will have to find another computer. Thanks!
 
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