Just got this Powerbook G4 (A1138) and it came with 10.5 on it. The reason why I bought it was to experiment with Tiger as I never had the chance before and I wanted to use Classic mode on it as well! Now where the problems start: the dvd drive is completely broken. I watched a couple of videos and documented myself on how to install through USB and honestly it doesn’t seemed that bad. Followed everything that I was told and it wont boot. Here are the weird problems I encountered:
I made sure the usb stick is apt(otherwise it wouldnt install) I cant however make 100% sure the hdd is apt because in disk Utility in the installer I cant change the partition scheme but I am confident its apt because I can in fact boot single user mode.
The install that tells me to plug in batteries and basically requires me to use a mouse makes me think its an powermac installer rather than a powerbook installer. But Im not sure.
I cant find any place to buy legit install CDs and even if I would, they wouldn’t be able to boot because of my dvd drive being broken. The best iso I found was from macintoshgarden(the one requiring a mouse)
If you want pictures of the process I can provide them if they could help!
The furthest I got was installing the OS, it boots to single user mode, it doesent error at all in verbose and in normal boot it gets stucks at the "Starting Max OSX" screen.
Picture attached.
I spent maybe 70 hours over the course of this past week and I still cant figure this out, so please, if any of you can help me out I will be the happiest!
- Some of the Tiger images I find online wont let get into the install. They just give me a big no entry sign. I did make sure to be ppc and not intel.
- Some boot the install but get stuck on a blue background before the actual installation
- Some boot the install, and suddenly get a message showing how to plug in batteries into a magic mouse. If I instantly plug in a mouse tbe whole computer freezez. If however I was 5 minutes and then plug in a mouse I can actually install the os. All goes perfectly. (Only the mouse and kb work though, the integrated trackpad doesn’t work durin the install(but its functional because I tested it on 10.5)). When the install is over and I reboot the pc, it boots to a blue screen, with a message saying “Starting mac os x” and a loading bar. The bar is animated and moves up to around 10% and then freezez the whole comouter. Cant even toggle capslock on and off. Now I tried verbose but this is after verbose ends. Tried to boot with and without a mouse, to no avail. Interesting note: I booted in single user mode, and it does get to the terminal, I checked the created users and only root is available. Which makes sense as I was never prompted to create an account. Is there any way to force that to run?
I made sure the usb stick is apt(otherwise it wouldnt install) I cant however make 100% sure the hdd is apt because in disk Utility in the installer I cant change the partition scheme but I am confident its apt because I can in fact boot single user mode.
The install that tells me to plug in batteries and basically requires me to use a mouse makes me think its an powermac installer rather than a powerbook installer. But Im not sure.
I cant find any place to buy legit install CDs and even if I would, they wouldn’t be able to boot because of my dvd drive being broken. The best iso I found was from macintoshgarden(the one requiring a mouse)
If you want pictures of the process I can provide them if they could help!
The furthest I got was installing the OS, it boots to single user mode, it doesent error at all in verbose and in normal boot it gets stucks at the "Starting Max OSX" screen.
I spent maybe 70 hours over the course of this past week and I still cant figure this out, so please, if any of you can help me out I will be the happiest!