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thejollyfatman

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Oct 24, 2008
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Right, i have a Powerbook G4, that was running OS X 10.3. I wanted to upgrade to 10.5. I've checked the specs and the powerbook is capable of running Leopard.

The Powerbook said that 10.5 couldnt be installed. So i decided to install 10.4 and use a 10.5 upgrade disc i got with my Aluminium Mac.

10.4 required the disc to be reformatted with a GUID Partition Table. So i did that and tried to install 10.4. But it wouldnt read the disc. So i connected it as a Target Firewire drive to my Mac, and installed it from there.

The Install succeeded. But now when i boot the Powerbook all i get is a folder with a flashing question mark in it. And it wont go any further. BUT, i cn boot my iMac from in 10.4 using the Powerbook as the startup disc.

Could there be a problem with what would be the equivalent of a BIOS?

Thanks for any help you can give.

P.S. Ive tried booting from a cd, clearing the PVRAM, both to no avail.
 
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