On Mar 27, 2010, at 5:26 PM, Jonas Ulrich wrote: > Hi, quick question here for a friend - He is wanting to know if it > would be possible to take the hard drive out of his G5 PowerMac > running Tiger, and slip it into an external case, hook the case to a > MacBook Pro, and boot off the system that the G5 was running. Would > that be possible? I realize one is PPC and the other Intel. >
In order for an Intel Mac to boot from any disk, external or internal, it needs to be formatted via Disk Utility using the GUID Partition Table. The Intel Mac will see the ex-G5 external hard drive formatted as an Apple Partition Map disk, but will not be able to boot from it. That's the first problem. The second problem is that if the MacBook Pro is an early 2008 or newer model, it will not be able to boot from OS X 10.4.11 since it shipped with 10.5.x or newer. -- Jim Scott -- 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 To unsubscribe from this group, send email to g3-5-list+unsubscribegooglegroups.com or reply to this email with the words "REMOVE ME" as the subject.
