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Roll back to Tiger

Hi Guys,

I've had it with Leopard, and I want to roll back. I have a G5 iMac and Leopard just isn't working out for me.

I'd like to roll back to Tiger, but I can roll back to Panther or Jaguar if I need to. My problem is that I can't roll back to any of them!

Whenever I try to boot the CD, I get the big circle with the line through it. My iMac won't even boot the disc. Is this because Leopard thinks it's better and won't let you boot CD's with older OS'es? It's so weird because it happens with all OS discs except for my Leopard disc (which starts up just fine).

Any thoughts on what might be going on?

Thanks!
Robert--

iMac flat screen, Mac OS X (10.2.x)

Posted on Nov 2, 2007 1:34 PM

22 replies

a brody

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Nov 8, 2007 6:41 PM in response to smiffy07

Welcome to Apple Discussions smiffy07!

Please start a new topic thread here so someone can help you out:

http://discussions.apple.com/forum.jspa?forumID=1219&start=0

You are confusing the original poster by posting a post that offers them no solution, and not getting as wide an audience as you might by posting your own topic. Please start a new with your questions.

a brody

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Nov 8, 2007 6:42 PM in response to David Rose

Mac OS X doesn't offer a clean install. I can only surmise by process of elimination you mean erase and install as my user tip explains:

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=607614

a brody

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Nov 8, 2007 6:44 PM in response to Robert Lindsley

Sorry Robert, but I'm afraid we are going to have to start a new topic. You are getting so many responses that don't pertain to your question it is going to be hard to follow which solutions were offered, and which were not. I'm leaving this thread.

ovidius

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Nov 9, 2007 11:02 AM in response to Scott Nash

I agree! I did an archive/install and have had big problems, especially with USB keyboards and mice. I'm up to 3-4 kernel panics a day now. What stinks is that I keep "docking" my MBP at various places where I teach - I have to move to different areas a couple times a day, and the past two days every time I've plugged in or unplugged an Apple USB keyboard, or a Logitech mouse, the system has kernel panicked. Very inconvenient. I love Leopard and keep finding more and more great things, but the instability combined with the fact that iSync with Treos is broken, is making me think it's not ready for prime time as you say. 😟

Nov 9, 2007 3:09 PM in response to Robert Lindsley

I have been having the identical problems. Sound disappears (sometimes reappears on rebooting), Quicktime and DVDs videos are sputtering and stalling and airport keeps kicking in and out. I tried an archive and reinstall - no results. Funny thing though, Quicktime works well in a new account that I created to test it.

So far the problems haven't been mission critical to my survival over the short term. Before going back to Tiger, is it worth it to hang in there and wait for upgrades??

Nov 9, 2007 6:55 PM in response to a brody

Probably a good thing.

taffer

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Nov 12, 2007 11:15 PM in response to Robert Lindsley

I have exactly the same problem. I am guessing that I will have to boot in target disk mode erase the hard drive using Leopard from a computer with Tiger. It is really too bad that this is happening with Leopard.

Roll back to Tiger