Target disk clone asking for restart not starting up

Hi. this is regarding a macbook pro 2 which came without an OS. We are transferring the HD of another MB Pro to the new one. We connected the two machines with a firewire 800 cable and made a clone of the HD on the new computer.
When we go to start up the new computer (with the cloned drive), the apple comes up followed by a screen that says : you need to restart the computer, hold down the power button or press restart. Since there is no restart button on the keyboard (my assumption-I'm doing this remotely with a friend 1000 miles away), I had him hold the power button and restart the computer. After six attempts, including removing the battery and power cord for thirty seconds between attempts, nothing has worked and the same message appears. We cannot startup from a supposedly bootable disk (CCC clone of presenet HD).
Any suggestions? Am I missing something?

As stated above, I had him clone his MBP HD to two separate partitions on an external HD for safety reasons only. When we tried to add a few (recent) files from his desktop to either of the clones we got a dialogue box that said files could not be added. There was tons of space, and both were fully bootable, so my thought was that there might be some sort of protection software installed on his drive that was preventing the addition of files (which I do all the time to the clones on my machines). It turns out there isn't any strange unknown software, so I'm at a loss to explain the dialogue. It's a good point about the formatting. We made it a two partition drive via disk utility, so I would assume the formatting would automatically be updated to Mac at that juncture, and also each clone is (and has been tested as) bootable.
He currently has a macbook pro 2 running 10.4.11 and is installing to another one of the same. Don't know the model numbers yet. Is there a way to find out whether it's an intel machine without first installing an OS? Adding to our difficulties: it's a used computer from ebay, he doesn't know squat about computers, I'm a thousand miles away.
There is no installer disk being used at all. He is cloning his HD from the computer he has to return to the university to a newly purchased (used) computer. CCC is the software.
It would be nice to get him up and running at least by the time he gets here, although the news today was that the IT guy with the University will upload everything onto the new machine (I guess with Leopard, if necessary) when he returns. so at this point it's a matter of convenience and curiosity.

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