pat34 Posted June 25, 2007 Share Posted June 25, 2007 Hello, I have dl'ed and burned OSX 10.5 on a double layered DVD on my external DVD drive, with a registered Dragon Burn, BUT... the drive itself doesn't recognize the written DVD anymore, my internal Combo doesn't write to double layered DVD's in the first place, but it does read it, but doesn't start or boot up from it. I'm lost.... Startup disk in sys pref. reads the DVD as a startup item or volume but when it boots it starts to search for another volume. Then I downloaded Carbon Copy cloner but it does only seemed to clone already installed systems. Could anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong here, cause I've read about people just being able to copy the opened install disk image to a partitioned harddrive and booting up from it, despite the root privileges and so on<bin- and var- files> In my opinion... and if anyone can prove me wrong, then please do so... it's impossible. Please help me here, cause I'd love to see leopard in action, and up until now I've spent like a week getting it to work. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/55258-cant-boot-105-from-imac-g5/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
NeXTstop Posted June 25, 2007 Share Posted June 25, 2007 Hi pat34. I have to tell you that Leopard is great on my iMacG5!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I've burn the dvd with the iMacG5 internal dvd dl writer and with Disk Utility and it works fine for me. I have some ridicoulous question for you... Do you press 'c' at boot time in order to boot from the Leopard Install DVD? Or do you set in Startup Disk the Leopard Install DVD as the boot disk? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/55258-cant-boot-105-from-imac-g5/#findComment-395181 Share on other sites More sharing options...
pat34 Posted June 25, 2007 Author Share Posted June 25, 2007 Hi NextStop, thanks for ur reply, actually I tried both... and both of 'em didn't work, why? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/55258-cant-boot-105-from-imac-g5/#findComment-395201 Share on other sites More sharing options...
NeXTstop Posted June 25, 2007 Share Posted June 25, 2007 I am not God, dear pat34. It's strange. Startup Disk see it as a boot volume but the Mac don't start... Try to burn the image of Leopard Install Disk with Disk Utility that is the application everybody has used to make the Leopard DVD. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/55258-cant-boot-105-from-imac-g5/#findComment-395221 Share on other sites More sharing options...
pat34 Posted June 25, 2007 Author Share Posted June 25, 2007 You know, the thing is... if I insert my empty DVD in the int. drive, it gets spat out again an again, and disk utility doesn't see the ext. drive, for some stupid reason. So that leaves me no other choice. Maybe you know a way to put the install disk on a partitioned harddrive... cause I've tried that too, didn't work. By the way... I envy you for having leopard, you lucky B. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/55258-cant-boot-105-from-imac-g5/#findComment-395235 Share on other sites More sharing options...
NeXTstop Posted June 25, 2007 Share Posted June 25, 2007 There's a solution! Wait October. -.- (I'm writing this post from Leopard. It's fantastic, really fantastic. I have never seen some of this kind....) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/55258-cant-boot-105-from-imac-g5/#findComment-395266 Share on other sites More sharing options...
pat34 Posted June 25, 2007 Author Share Posted June 25, 2007 Might you be from planet {censored}? I'm writing this from my 10.4 Tiger, and you know what? It looks quite the same, and I think I WILL wait...MacPrick http://www.amishrakefight.org/gfy/ Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/55258-cant-boot-105-from-imac-g5/#findComment-395287 Share on other sites More sharing options...
SeanM Posted June 25, 2007 Share Posted June 25, 2007 I also could not get it to work on my iMac G5. I have a revision A (first one released) and it doesn't have a dual layer burner, so couldn't burn it with that. I did burn two copies though using Toast 8 and Disk Utility - the iMac could see them but not boot from it. Since it's a powerpc mac it doesn't boot from USB either, which is how I installed it on my MacBook. So I just gave up trying to install it on my iMac G5. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/55258-cant-boot-105-from-imac-g5/#findComment-395482 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bearcat Posted June 25, 2007 Share Posted June 25, 2007 Mine is a G5 iMac (ALS), 2.0ghz 20", with the dual-layer superdrive, and Leopard works fine. But, I created 2 partitions on an external firewire drive, as HFS+ (Journaled), Apple Partition Map, and restored the dmg to one of the partitions, then rebooted holding "option" down and selecting that partition, booted in to the install, and installed on the other partition of the external drive. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/55258-cant-boot-105-from-imac-g5/#findComment-395531 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vsquared Posted June 26, 2007 Share Posted June 26, 2007 Try this, Its worked for me on all 3 of my G4's.. .maybe it will work for you LINKY LINKY Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/55258-cant-boot-105-from-imac-g5/#findComment-395540 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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