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