Sorbet leopard boot up error

[Nightfury2440]

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.

The model number is : A1174

 

[ww2_1943]

It is an Intel Mac. Sorbet will never work. Officially you can run Snow Leopard. That is pretty close to Sorbet- which integrate improvements from 10.6.

You can try 10.4 Shuriken- http://macintoshgarden.org/apps/shuriken

 

[Amethyst1]

You can try 10.4 Shuriken- http://macintoshgarden.org/apps/shuriken

Shuriken requires an existing Tiger installation which, for an Intel iMac, means using the grey restore discs that were bundled with the machine.

 

[Nightfury2440]

I do have a Mac min g4 PowerPC just tried sorbet leopard it on there but the partition is not showing up on the start up boot option.what can I do to get to show up on the boot option?

 

[ww2_1943]

Shuriken requires an existing Tiger installation which, for an Intel iMac, means using the grey restore discs that were bundled with the machine.

Yes, I know 10.4 is tricky when it comes to Intel machines.

 

[ww2_1943]

I do have a Mac min g4 PowerPC just tried sorbet leopard it on there but the partition is not showing up on the start up boot option.what can I do to get to show up on the boot option?

What is the other OS you have on there? Can you see Sorbet from the Startup Disk menu?

 

[Amethyst1]

I do have a Mac min g4 PowerPC just tried sorbet leopard it on there but the partition is not showing up on the start up boot option.what can I do to get to show up on the boot option?

Is the hard drive partitioned using the Apple Partition Map (APM) scheme? It must be for the Mac mini to be able to boot from it.

If you’ve used an Intel Mac to restore the image, the hard drive might have ended up with the GUID Partition Table (GPT) scheme that a G4 mini cannot boot from.

And... sorry to sound like a broken record, but can you check if it's really a G4? If it has two USB ports on the back, it is. If it has four or five, it's an Intel.

 

[Nightfury2440]

Is the hard drive partitioned using the Apple Partition Map (APM) scheme? It must be for the Mac mini to be able to boot from it.

If you’ve used an Intel Mac to restore the image, the hard drive might have ended up with the GUID Partition Table (GPT) scheme that a G4 mini cannot boot from.

And... sorry to sound like a broken record, but can you check if it's really a G4? If it has two USB ports on the back, it is. If it has four or five, it's an Intel.

Yes it has two ports on the back of the Mac mini

 

[Nightfury2440]

I partition the ssd to apple partition map but I still can’t it to show up on the start boot option.

 

[Nightfury2440]

do I need a older version of sorbet leopard?

 

[Nightfury2440]

So I’m guessing I need to put into target disk mode then?