HELP! GRAY SCREEN OF DEATH! I ran the disc image of Leopard through Disk Utility to try to make a bootable image, as advised, and now this! I T booted via firewire to get my g5's HD onto my old emac, ran Disk utility, which reportede NO PROBLEMS, and STILL I get death screen.
--- On Mon, 6/11/12, John Carmonne <carmo...@aol.com> wrote: > From: John Carmonne <carmo...@aol.com> > Subject: Re: Leopard won't install on G5 1.8ghz dual power mac. > To: g3-5-list@googlegroups.com > Date: Monday, June 11, 2012, 8:02 AM > > On Jun 10, 2012, at 8:28 PM, TFH wrote: > > > I'm rehabbing this 2004 model (Dual G5 1.8, 2GB ram, > 250GB HD) which > > does not have a dual layer dvd drive. I've installed > Tiger 4.11, and > > it is stable and fast. I've tried putting the Leopard > dvd onto my > > external HD in it's own partition, (had outside help > with this) but it > > won't install. I've made a disk image from this drive, > and that gets > > me to "Restart" in the Leopard installer, but it won't > boot- just blue > > screen. Selecting the HD partition as the boot drive > via firewire > > results in the cooling fans redlining! Do I really have > to get an > > external dual-layer dvd drive, and would this even > work? > > Thank you. > > > > I do this by making a boot image from an install DVD using > the restore function in disk utility. You need a partition > and when you start up use the option key to select the start > up volume. It will boot as it was a DVD. > > John Carmonne > Yorba Linda CA > 92886 USA > MacBook Pro i7 > > > > > > > -- > You received this message because you are a member of > G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs > - with a particular focus on Power Macs. > The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our > netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml > To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list > -- You received this message because you are a member of G-Group, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to g3-5-list@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list
