G5 PowerPC doesn’t seem to boot

[psycho78]

So I’ve never messed with PowerPC Macs before, only intel machines and I picked up a nice G5 PowerPC on the cheap. It was booting into Tiger and I wanted to change things around so I bought an SSD and formatted into 3 drives—hoping to install a few OSs on it. Using a newer Mac, I installed Tiger on one of the drives using recovery, I installed Sorbet Leopard on another and thinking maybe Debian on the third, however when I try to boot, it just takes me to a screen with a reload arrow and another arrow facing right. Tried holding Option on restart thinking it would give me choices of drives but nothing, same screen. I’m sure I did something wrong so just trying to see what that was…

 

[redheeler]

If you formatted the drive using an Intel Mac, it won't be bootable on a PowerPC unless you selected the Apple Partition Map scheme in Disk Utility. Also, Tiger isn't a universal OS, meaning if you install it using a 2006/2007 Intel Mac and recovery disk it won't work on a PowerPC Mac.

 

[psycho78]

Ah ok that makes sense. I have no idea how I’m going to install Tiger then since I didn’t get a retail disc with the computer

 

[TheShortTimer]

Ah ok that makes sense. I have no idea how I’m going to install Tiger then since I didn’t get a retail disc with the computer

Download the Tiger ISO from the Macintosh Garden. (tiger-10-4-6-ppc.iso)