I download sorbet leaped but I keep running into a problem when booting up. The screen will go normal but then it darkens then a error comes up. I have tired different way and different version but still nothing. I been trying to do this for about year because I really want to use sorbet leopard but I can’t get past the error. I don’t know if I’m doing something wrong but I have a iMac g5 and a Mac mini g4 which should run this os but nothing because of the error.
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Sorbet leopard boot up error
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I have tired looking up video about it but nothing doesn’t show anything different on what I need to do about the error.
And have you checked that your downloaded image is not corrupted? Check if it has the correct size and if the checksums match.
Yes i tried the official install method and and yes I made sure that the image is not corrupted. I go the download from the official website no where else.
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This is a kernel panic. It can be caused by e.g. a corrupted download or an error while writing the image to the hard drive (or SSD). How big is the image you downloaded after extracting, and how have you been restoring it to the hard drive (or SSD)?
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The download is about 3.81 gb and the way I restore it by the Carbon copy clone and didn’t download as a zip. Restore it to a SSD and then a Hard Drive same error on both
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The size sounds right for the R15 dmg. Is the MD5 checksum of the dmg
0438875e3bf50b8ef05238b4098780e8? To check, open Applications > Utilities > Terminal, type md5 followed by a space, drag the dmg into the Terminal window and press Enter. If you get a different checksum, the dmg is corrupted.Do other versions of OS X work fine on the machines, eliminating a hardware problem as the possible cause? The kernel panic actually indicates that Sorbet doesn't have drivers for the Mac it's booting on which doesn't make sense as it's designed for PPC Macs. So it's either a problem with the dmg, the restore process or the hardware.
What happens if it’s a hardware problem. And I even tired in my friends PowerBook g4 and the same thing happen. The dmg is not corrupted so it either a hardware problem or the restore process. Is there a way to fix that problem to make it boot?
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Wait a moment… are you trying to install Sorbet Leopard on an Intel Mac? That appears to be an A1181 MacBook.
No I use that MacBook to download it since it was downloading slow on the ppc but I tried to get it running in my ppc but used the terminal on MacBook to see if it was corrupted or not.
There is an another picture above that would be a iMac g5 that I was trying to use for sobert leopard but came to that error. I used my MacBook to restore image on an external ssd then plug it in to my iMac g5 or Mac mini g4 put same error. I even tried to download it on ppc and restore it that way as well but same error popped up.
Yes both of my ppc work fine with other Versions of Mac OS X. It’s just sorbet leopard that is having troubles booting.
I got a kernal panic on my Pismo with a G4 upgrade when I originally tried to install it. I had to update the firmware to finally install Sorbet.
Maybe I missed it, but how are you installing this? The way I installed it it was by putting the target machine in Target Disk Mode and restore the image using CCC on a different PowerPC Mac.
If you continue to have issues, install Leopard and see if the same issues happen.
Maybe I missed it, but how are you installing this? The way I installed it it was by putting the target machine in Target Disk Mode and restore the image using CCC on a different PowerPC Mac.
If you continue to have issues, install Leopard and see if the same issues happen.
OK. Understood.
I ought to preface that I’m not a user of Sorbet Leopard, but this general method ought to work:
- From the MacBook with the Sorbet Leopard image, connect via FireWire Target Disk mode to the PowerPC Mac you’re planning to use.
- When the FireWire-connected drive from the PowerPC Mac shows up on the desktop, open Disk Utility.app.
- In Disk Utility, assuming you are going to run Sorbet Leopard on the PowerPC hard drive (and there’s nothing on the PowerPC hard drive you’re planning to keep/save), select the FireWire-connected PowerPC Mac hard drive and select the “Partition” tab.
- When the Partition tab opens, use the pull-down just above the partition display to select “1 Partition”.
- Now, just underneath the partition display, select the “Options…” button. There should be three options for partition scheme. You’ll need to select Apple Partition Map for the FireWire-connected drive.
- Now, back on the Partition tab menu, go ahead and run the partitioning and formatting of the FireWiire-connected drive by selecting the “Apply” button.
- Once this is complete, go find a copy of Carbon Copy Cloner (I use version 3.4.7 on my Snow Leopard, Leopard, and Tiger Macs. This version may or may not work on later versions of OS X.)
- In Carbon Copy Cloner, under the “Select a source” pull-down on the left, choose “Restore from disk image…” and select your .dmg of Sorbet Leopard.
- Under the “Select a destination pull-down on the right, choose your FireWire-connected hard drive (under whatever name you gave it when you created the partition in Disk Utility). Once this is selected, the “Block copy” button, just to the right of the destination pull-down, should be available. Click that button. Carbon Copy Cloner should give you an alert that this option will perform a block-level copy of the source and that all contents on the destination volume will be erased. This is what you want.
- Next, select “Clone” at the bottom-right. Let it do its thing.
- Once it’s done, eject your FireWire-connected hard drive. Power down your PowerPC Mac, and power it on again. It should now load Sorbet Leopard as if it had been installed (rather than clone-copied).
Let us know how it goes.
ok I see if that works I don’t have a FireWire but I can buy one and do it that with the target disk mode.
I'm going to take a different approach to this just to make sure that everything is actually in order because I'm still not sure.
Are you sure your iMac is in fact a G5? I'm aware of there being iMac G5 models with the built-in iSight camera but I just want to make extra sure it's not a hardware incompatibility, because that RELEASE_I386 identifier in the kernel is very suspicious.
You can check this by finding the model number located under the big foot the iMac sits on and cross-referencing it with the big model and serial numbers thread or on EveryMac or similar database.
Sidebar, I originally was going to suggest port layout, but I learned just today that iSight G5s have the horizontal ports just like the Intel iMacs. Huh.
Are you sure your iMac is in fact a G5? I'm aware of there being iMac G5 models with the built-in iSight camera but I just want to make extra sure it's not a hardware incompatibility, because that RELEASE_I386 identifier in the kernel is very suspicious.
You can check this by finding the model number located under the big foot the iMac sits on and cross-referencing it with the big model and serial numbers thread or on EveryMac or similar database.
Sidebar, I originally was going to suggest port layout, but I learned just today that iSight G5s have the horizontal ports just like the Intel iMacs. Huh.
Whoa! That's a very good point. Giving it a second look, the "Unable to find driver for this platform: ACPI" error message is also very suspicious.
Are you sure these are not early Intel models which look very similar to their PPC predecessors?
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I am sure the iMac g5 has a intel processor but the Mac mini g4 doesn’t it says PowerPC on it in.
If it has an Intel processor it’s not an iMac G5 — and Sorbet won’t run on it. Sorbet is for PPC Macs only.
Okay. We're getting to the bottom, literally. Once and for all, what is the model number of your iMac? It's under the big foot and starts with the letter A. This will definitively tell us what iMac you actually have.