Re: will a PPC cloned boot drive work as the boot drive for an Intel?

[amorielljason]

The PPC G5 was running 10.5 (.2 I believe).  I tried again.  It will boot from the cloned G5 drive on the external hard drive, but the mouse still fails to work after boot-up, regardless of which USB port I try. 

-------------- Original message from John Martz <zjo...@gmail.com>: --------------


>
> On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 7:16 PM, wrote:
> >  10.5.7 for the OS
>
> I assume that's what the mini is using ... how about the PPC G5 whose
> recovered install drive you were trying to boot from? What OS was it
> using? (Just wondering if that external drive contained the version of
> Tiger (or later) which supports Intel or an earlier Mac OS.
>
> -irrational john
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