Cant seem to get my older Macbook G4 to mount in Target Disk Mode on my Macbook Pro.

I'm trying to solve a boot up issue with my Macbook G4, seems there's a kernal panic trying to boot up and when trying to boot from a hardware test cd, it shows an error that there's a 'No driver for this platform." error.
Did all the reset nvram/pram, tried to start up in safe mode with no luck. So I booted up in Target Disk Mode to my Intel Macbook, ran disk utility, repaired a couple errors, but the hard drive wont mount. It says "try running disk repair and mount again."
Any ideas what could be the issue?

Thank you jeffd55,
I followed the steps in the article you attached to your reply and it worked perfectly. I should add that I followed exactly these steps previously EXCEPT that I had a portable 2 Tb USB 3.0 external drive attached to my 2014 MacBook Pro previously, as my new MacBook Pro has a much smaller capacity than my old 2007 MacBook. But today I didn't attach the external drive and the 2007 MacBook's HDD appeared on the 2014 MacBook Pro's desktop as promised. I don't know if or why the external drive should make a difference; I'm just very pleased it worked!
Thank you.

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