iross Posted October 30, 2006 Share Posted October 30, 2006 Hi, Having been running 10.5 quite happily my PowerBook now needs to go back to 10.4 for a variety of reasons (and I'll miss Spaces and the new Mail.app soo much) ... one small problem when I run the Mac OS X 10.4 Install DVD it does one of two things; 1. Boots without allowing me any use of the keyboard or mouse. 2. Boots as far as a blue screen with the mouse pointer stuck in the top right Can anyone suggest a solution?!? It will boot into leopard quite happily... Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
h4ck1nt05h Posted October 30, 2006 Share Posted October 30, 2006 It sounds like you have a newer PowerBook. You have to install the version of OS X that was shipped with your PowerBook in order to have the proper drivers for keyboard, mouse, fans, etc... so if the restore disc that shipped with your laptop was 10.4.3, there's a good chance that you have to have the 10.4.3 kernel and extensions to run the installer. If you have access to another PowerPC Mac with firewire, I would suggest connecting your PowerBook to the other Mac in target mode (hold the T key down as you start up, should come up to a blue screen with a firewire symbol) and install OS X onto it that way. Then install the 10.4.8 combo update (while booted off of the PowerBook hard drive on the other mac). Once you have updated to 10.4.8, shut down both computer and your PowerBook should start up and act normal. Hope this helps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adrian Fogge Posted October 31, 2006 Share Posted October 31, 2006 Yep, the Powerbook 5,9 changed a lot of stuff, new IDE Controller, change in memory, devices on USB as apposed to ADB... If you can not find your original install discs and only have original Tiger discs, then use the Target Disc mode option, but make sure that you boot the system in Target Disc Mode from the other computer to make sure that you can update it and have the ability to use your input devices and other things. For the Target Disc Option, you do not need another "Mac", but you can also use a Hackintosh to facilitate the installation, however will be unable to boot it due to Tiger Discs being Architecture Locked. Another choice that you could do if you have an external harddrive is that if you copy your Tiger Installation DVD to it in a DMG, you can boot with your Leopard Disc, use Disk Utility to mount the disc and then use the Terminal with it's "open" command to run the OSInstall.pkg. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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