Amber Lunch

Q: Re-install Tiger with target mode - how to boot to second disk?

I am resurrecting a friend's macbook. In the process of upgrading to Snow Leopard, the DVD drive quit. The install never finished and on boot it was showing the grey and black "please restart your mac" screen.

 

I used disk utility to repair the disk but it still booted to the error message. I erased the HD and was able to get it to boot using an install on a firewire drive, but I haven't been able to install it on the macbook HD.

 

I created disk images for each disk and put them on separate partitions on the firewire drive. I was able to install Tiger on her HD all the way to the "insert second disk" message, but don't know how to switch to the other partition where the disk 2 install is.

 

The original Tiger install is on the two disks that came with her computer. The Snow Leopard is the retail version on one DVD.

 

 

 

 

 

Any ideas?


thanks in advance

Posted on Mar 20, 2015 10:22 AM

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Q: Re-install Tiger with target mode - how to boot to second disk?

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  • by Kappy,

    Kappy Kappy Mar 20, 2015 10:30 AM in response to Amber Lunch
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    Mar 20, 2015 10:30 AM in response to Amber Lunch

    Unless you can boot your computer from Tiger then you cannot install Tiger via Target Disk Mode onto the other computer. You need to get an external DVD drive for the non-working computer or you can clone the installer DVD to an 8 GB flash drive and boot the computer using the flash drive via OPTION boot.

     

    You can put both DVDs on a 16 GB flash drive that has been partitioned into two volumes.

     

    Clone using Restore Option of Disk Utility

     

      1. Open Disk Utility in the Utilities folder.

      2. Select the destination volume from the left side list.

      3. Click on the Restore tab in the DU main window.

      4. Select the destination volume from the left side list and drag

           it to the Destination entry field.

      5. Select the source volume from the left side list and drag it to

          the Source entry field.

      6. Double-check you got it right, then click on the Restore button.

     

    Destination means the flash drive. Source means the installer DVD. If you wish to put both DVDs on a 16 GB partitioned flash drive, then the destinations will be a volume on the flash drive.


  • by Amber Lunch,

    Amber Lunch Amber Lunch Mar 20, 2015 2:21 PM in response to Kappy
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    Mar 20, 2015 2:21 PM in response to Kappy

    The install disks are on two different partitions on a firewire drive, as well as a usb drive. The OS installs beautifully until it gets to the second disk request, when it won't find the second disk, either on firewire or USB.

  • by Kappy,

    Kappy Kappy Mar 20, 2015 2:30 PM in response to Amber Lunch
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    Mar 20, 2015 2:30 PM in response to Amber Lunch

    Is the second disk mounted on the Desktop? Have you tried booting from the second disk?

  • by Amber Lunch,

    Amber Lunch Amber Lunch Mar 20, 2015 5:48 PM in response to Amber Lunch
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    Mar 20, 2015 5:48 PM in response to Amber Lunch

    The second disk doesn't show up on the desktop unless I boot holding the option key. In fact, the desktop doesn't show up because the install never finishes. The second disk  - and all the partitions - show up on the desktop on my other computers.

  • by Amber Lunch,

    Amber Lunch Amber Lunch Mar 20, 2015 5:49 PM in response to Amber Lunch
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    Mar 20, 2015 5:49 PM in response to Amber Lunch

    And it just does the spinning pizza wheel if I try to start from the second DVD.

  • by BDAqua,

    BDAqua BDAqua Mar 21, 2015 11:22 AM in response to Amber Lunch
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    Mar 21, 2015 11:22 AM in response to Amber Lunch

    That second Disc thing happens frequently even with Discs, the best way around it is to do a Custom install, and eliminate enough Printer Drivers, Languages, Fonts, and Applications you don't need... then it may skip #2 altogether.

     

    http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1442