After upgrading one of my G4 PowerBook's to a WD 320gb PATA hard
drive, it will no longer boot using my Tiger Install DVD. I first
thought the hard drive was bad (brand new drive), then I thought I had
made a mistake in taking apart and putting back together my
PowerBook. Eventually I took out the drive and re-installed my old
hard drive and the PowerBook ran fine again.
I am embarrassed to say that thinking I had killed my nice G4
PowerBook during the upgrade attempt, I purchased a replacement
(because I was demonstrating MorphOS3.0 beta at a computer show and
had to have a working G4 PowerBook that week) before I figured out
that my first G4 PowerBook was okay when I put the original hard drive
back into it. So now I have two 1.67GHz G4 PowerBook's and I put the
320gb hard drive into the second G4 PowerBook and find out that it
also won't boot from the Tiger Install DVD. I bought a retail Leopard
Install DVD and it will boot from that, but for some reason it still
won't boot from the Tiger Install DVD.
So you ask, why bother with the Tiger Install DVD if I have the
Leopard Install DVD. Well, the Leopard Install DVD's Disk Utility
will not allow you to create partitions less than 1gb and to set up a
dual boot MacOSX & MorphOS3.0 beta system you need at least 3
partitions and one of those partitions only needs to be about 60mb and
I hate wasting 1gb of space for a partition that only needs less than
60mb of file space.
Sorry for such a long explanation, but do any of you have any idea why
a G4 PowerBook will not boot from the Tiger Install DVD when it has a
320gb hard drive is installed inside of it?
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