Re: ibook booting from panther

[Tim Collier]

I experienced a similar problem with my iMac G5.  I wanted to repair 
the disk and permissions as I like to do about once per month.  This 
was the first time that I was doing this and out of habit, I got down 
the Panther installation box.  I put the CD in and restarted holding 
the the C key.  I got the Apple logo and then the booting stopped and a 
few pixels on the display went a bit odd.  I tried this 3 times before 
I called Apple.  They told me, much to my embarrassment that the 
minimum OS that my iMac will boot is 10.3.5 and I was trying to boot 
off of 10.3.  So, I went and retrieved the disks that came with the 
iMac and it booted off THAT CD without any problem.
And since you just brought it up.  I thought I would make a test.....I 
also have a new iBook and I looked just now at the installation disks 
that came with it.  10.3.5.  I just tried to boot off of the original 
Panther install disks and got the same symptoms as when I tried to use 
them in my iMac.  Since yours is a 1 gig iBook and mine is a 1.2 gig 
iBook, I tend to think your minimum OS is also higher than 10.3 and 
therefore the source of the problem you encountered.

Tim
On Dec 12, 2004, at 9:21 AM, Dylan Moore wrote:
Well it doesn't work for me, either, and I really need it to.
1Ghz 12" ibook
If I start from a CD, i get the apple for a few seconds, then the 
apple glitches slightly (gets offset, wraps around and gets garbled 
around the edge) never shows the spinning loader icon, and sits there. 
Thats awesome. WTF?
I'll try using the CDs it came with, but I'd much prefer the control 
that the real install discs offer.  ppfft.
Is there anyone this WILL work for, or a workaround?
-Dylan


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