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Another Leopard Quirk: try it yourself
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Apr 2000
Location: Minneapolis, MN USA
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I have a dual G5 with two drives in it, a 200 gig SATA and a 500 gig SATA.
The 200 gig was upgraded to Leopard. Prior to installing Leopard I made damn
sure the 500 gig SATA was updated to the latest and greatest version of Tiger
(10.4.1 I believe) and verified it would boot after getting all of the updates.
The reason being is I wanted to be able to pull back to Tiger if Leopard had
issues with certain critical bits of software.
I installed Leopard and beyond the APE/Unsanity problem some people have
experienced it went fine.
This morning I wanted to go back to Tiger so I could run something in classic
(one last transfer of data from an app that never got ported) and this is what
happens:
Gray screen with rotating icon. The icon rotated for over 200 times and the
fans slowly ramped from inaudible to howling over a space of about 6-7
minutes. I rebooted and tried it again and it still never boots into Tiger.
It just sits there at the gray screen with the icon rotating as long as you
care to wait and the fans gradually ramp up to annoying.
I used the Leopard disc to change the boot drive and go back to my
Leopard disc and that works fine but talk about annoying.
Machine G5 2.5 dual, 3.5 gigs ram, 200/500 gig internal satas, Radeon 9600xt, etc.
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Clinically Insane
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Los Angeles
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Doesn't sound good - thank you for letting us know. Btw, you could also hold Option at startup to select between boot drives.
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"The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground." TJ
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Senior User
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: USA
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Holding down Option at bootup should give you the option to select the boot drive, that's what I did when in the same boat, had to go back to Tiger for one forgotten item...
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MacBook 2.0 160/2GB/SuperDrive
Lots of older Macs
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Senior User
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: USA
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...And Big Mac must have been typing at the same time! 
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MacBook 2.0 160/2GB/SuperDrive
Lots of older Macs
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Clinically Insane
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Los Angeles
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"The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground." TJ
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Apr 2000
Location: Minneapolis, MN USA
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Jinx! I'll give it a shot. Unfortunately, I didn't have a ton of time to wait so it may just be being lazy.
But it's almost as if as a byproduct of the Leopard install, it did something to the other boot drive
attached to the machine.
I did get a chance to repair permissions on that drive and still wouldn't let me get onto it.
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Senior User
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: USA
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I had mine disconnected during the Leopard install, thought it would be cleaner that way. I did have another issue with the second drive, after I got what I wanted off it and disconnected it somehow Spotlight got confused and wouldn't find anything on the boot drive at all, had to force a reindex.
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MacBook 2.0 160/2GB/SuperDrive
Lots of older Macs
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