daSilVetZ Posted May 8, 2007 Share Posted May 8, 2007 Alright this is the deal. I have a PowerBook G4. I have Leopard 91410. I've slipt an external USB drive into two partitions, one called Media, one called Leopard. I've restored the Leopard image onto MEDIA with Disk Utility, and also tried with CCC. I've restarted my PowerBook while holding Option down, it sees the MEDIA partition with Leopard Install data on it. It won't BOOT up. It just sits there on the grey apple logo, I've even let it sit for an hour. Any ideas/suggestions? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paranoid Marvin Posted May 8, 2007 Share Posted May 8, 2007 PowerPC Macs cannot boot off USB That's where your problem lies. Seems stupid, I know, but I gues Apple couldn't be bothered implementing it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
riws Posted May 8, 2007 Share Posted May 8, 2007 PowerPC Macs cannot boot off USBThat's where your problem lies. Seems stupid, I know, but I gues Apple couldn't be bothered implementing it! They can boot from USB, my powerbook boots from external usb dvd drive (installed tiger many times from it) and from usb hdd (have tiger installed there for backup) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daSilVetZ Posted May 8, 2007 Author Share Posted May 8, 2007 that's the thing, i've booted off of my USB drive many times in the past... now if Leopard doesn't support it, that's a different story.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
riws Posted May 8, 2007 Share Posted May 8, 2007 No, Leopard boots from external usb hdd, i tried to install from it, but my powerbook is not supported by leopard, installer comes up, but wont let me to install it, coz my powerbook hardware is not supported by leopard, i guess too old g4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MasonMcD Posted May 8, 2007 Share Posted May 8, 2007 Empty firewire enclosures for disks are pretty cheap. Like, $30. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Embio Posted May 8, 2007 Share Posted May 8, 2007 try redownloading the image Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daSilVetZ Posted May 8, 2007 Author Share Posted May 8, 2007 I did, it still doesn't work. I guess I'll just have to get myself a DL DVD burner.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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