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Cant get back to Tiger from Leopard help!
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BTW, I merged these threads, since they appear to be the same issue:
CORRECTION:
dwl017: Your G5 iMac is PPC, and the partition table MUST be "Apple Partition Map". Check and make sure.
Arisian: Your MBP is Intel, and the partition table MUST be "GUID". Check and make sure.
CORRECTION:
dwl017: Your G5 iMac is PPC, and the partition table MUST be "Apple Partition Map". Check and make sure.
Arisian: Your MBP is Intel, and the partition table MUST be "GUID". Check and make sure.
Ok I will give that a try tonight, after that Im going to leave it alone and just go back to Leopard, I dont want to run the risk of messing up a prefectly good machine.
ok, I solved this problem. It seriously wasnt that bad, but the process of getting it there was a real beast. Attached is a link to this entire process I took as well as the blog I found that helped solve this prob, but I will walk through it here.
Ok, so the install dvds apple sends out, or at least for leopard/tiger are dual layer high density dvd's. The actual plastic and encoding material on these are made on are really crappy sometimes. Have you ever noticed that some DVDs play on some DVD players (excluding regionalization) and not on others? Sometimes the DVDs are somewhat incompatible with eachother.
Thats being said my powerbook reads the leopard install cd fine. So I put the powerbook into disk mode and plopped in the cd and low and behold the install for it came up on my macbook.
Im going to call apple and have them send me a new disc, because thats just horribly unaccepable. Honestly, if I have no disc, I cant do ANY sort of hardware maintainence with real authority.
All this to say, I think that if you have two macs, you should be able to repeat this process as well. For more instruction, follow the links I have provided!
http://macamour.com/blog/2007/11/07/installing-os-x-via-the-target-disk-mode/
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=7367128�
Ok, so the install dvds apple sends out, or at least for leopard/tiger are dual layer high density dvd's. The actual plastic and encoding material on these are made on are really crappy sometimes. Have you ever noticed that some DVDs play on some DVD players (excluding regionalization) and not on others? Sometimes the DVDs are somewhat incompatible with eachother.
Thats being said my powerbook reads the leopard install cd fine. So I put the powerbook into disk mode and plopped in the cd and low and behold the install for it came up on my macbook.
Im going to call apple and have them send me a new disc, because thats just horribly unaccepable. Honestly, if I have no disc, I cant do ANY sort of hardware maintainence with real authority.
All this to say, I think that if you have two macs, you should be able to repeat this process as well. For more instruction, follow the links I have provided!
http://macamour.com/blog/2007/11/07/installing-os-x-via-the-target-disk-mode/
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=7367128�
From what I've seen and after talking to an apple tech (we have one here in my office)
chances are if any firmware was applied to assist in Leopard compatibility that could (he's 90% sure) hinder a tiger install. He didn't list specifics like graphics, efi, keyboard, bluetooth, etc. He just said it's extremly likely that it would hinder, especially if the firmware was a result of leopard related issues.
chances are if any firmware was applied to assist in Leopard compatibility that could (he's 90% sure) hinder a tiger install. He didn't list specifics like graphics, efi, keyboard, bluetooth, etc. He just said it's extremly likely that it would hinder, especially if the firmware was a result of leopard related issues.
OK, my KPs were definitely because I don't have the right Tiger installation DVD that came with this model MBP.
I need 10.4.9 or 10.4.10.
The "latest" I can find for an MBP is 10.4.8.
Also:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305817
Given the requirements for the above firmware update, and what it updates, the source of my KPs, and the fact that all I can find are 10.4.8 discs..
I need 10.4.9 or 10.4.10.
The "latest" I can find for an MBP is 10.4.8.
Also:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305817
Given the requirements for the above firmware update, and what it updates, the source of my KPs, and the fact that all I can find are 10.4.8 discs..