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PowerMac G5 Not Seeing OS X DVD

Hi,

I am working on a PowerMac G5 (Early 2005) 2.7Ghz model for a customer. They brought it to me because they needed a replacement video card because his son broke off a transistor(Some How?). I purchased a new video card, and problem #1 was solved. But then I ran into another problem. It had an empty hard drive with no OS, no nothing. I made a OS X Tiger disk off of the Original OEM .dmg from an official disk, and made a boot USB. The "option key" menu did not show the usb. So, I tried OS X Leopard (I said Leopard 10.5, not "Snow" Leopard 10.6 witch is incompatible with PowerPC Macs") and still no luck. Next I tried both of the DVD's I had. Still, nothing. I do not usually work on Pre-Intel machines. I only have one, which is a Powerbook G3 Wallstreet. Serial for the G5 will be included so you all can see what I am working with!


Please Help Me figure this one out 🙂



Thanks,

Bradley Lokietek



PS: Serial is G8********RU4



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MacBook Air, OS X Mavericks (10.9.5), null

Posted on Aug 29, 2015 6:35 AM

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Posted on Aug 29, 2015 10:32 AM

Hi Brad,


Most PPC Macs cannot boot OSX off USB if external Firewire Optical is needed.


Some PPC Macs can be coerced to boot off USB using Open Firmware hack...


http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20060301112336384


Another option would be to pull the SATA Drive, Partition it with a small partition to restore the DMG to.

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Aug 29, 2015 10:32 AM in response to brad737

Hi Brad,


Most PPC Macs cannot boot OSX off USB if external Firewire Optical is needed.


Some PPC Macs can be coerced to boot off USB using Open Firmware hack...


http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20060301112336384


Another option would be to pull the SATA Drive, Partition it with a small partition to restore the DMG to.

PowerMac G5 Not Seeing OS X DVD

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