Re: Leopard won't install on G5 1.8ghz dual power mac.

[TIM HACKETT]

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
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Re: Leopard won't install on G5 1.8ghz dual power mac.

[TIM HACKETT]

I reset the PMU, same death screen, even with safe mode. I can't even open the 
dvd drive to reinstall the OS. Is it the motherboard?



I would suggest resetting the PMU and trying to boot from the image again
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1939

I had a similar issue with getting Leopard on a G5 dual 2.0Ghz that didn't have 
dual layer DVD, and it took a couple of days before I tried resetting the PMU 
and that did the trick even  though I have no idea why. I was at a point where 
I decided I'd try everything and anything, no matter how remote or off the wall.

On Jun 13, 2012, at 8:58 PM, TIM HACKETT wrote:

 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.

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