I have a PowerMac G4 MDD with Leopard currently installed. I'm trying to downgrade to Tiger by booting the install DVD. I have burned three copies of the DVD. All of the DVDs are recognized in the Leopard install, but going to the boot menu shows the HDD but not the DVD, any of the three I booted. Holding "C" on boot to try to make it boot the DVD just makes it boot into the existing Leopard install. How can I fix this? Does the firmware not want to recognize the DVD because I already have a newer Mac OS install?
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Mac OS 10.4 Install DVD not recognized in boot menu on PowerMac G4 MDD
- Thread starter chiggen
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Which image file did you burn to your DVDs?
How did you burn it?
How did you burn it?
I burned this image as it was the most popular on internet archive using brasero on a macbook air running debian 12 with an asus dvd-rw
They might be missing the necessary boot blocks and drivers in the boot sector of the image, which could make them unbootable.
I haven’t checked those particular images but it is common for images uploaded online to be bad and not be bootable.
If you have one more DVD you can try downloading and burning this one:
Likely a few things
1. The other image lacks the proper boot sectors on the ISO image for booting.
2. Your DVD blanks aren't good quality.
3. Your burner is maybe going too fast or too slow to burn them well.
All 3 could be factors here. Glad you got it working.
