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martigras

macrumors newbie
Original poster
Oct 13, 2007
2
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Calgary, Alberta, Canada
I purchased a used G4 PowerMac tower about a month ago which came loaded with 10.4 but no install disks. I began installing the 10.4.10 update and it crashed. It would not boot, instead went consistently to the panic screen, and so I didn't have much choice except to format the drive.

The computer came with a CD drive, not a DVD drive, so I installed and ran Ubuntu 7.04 on it until I could get a DVD drive. Now that I have a DVD drive, I have tried the following to no avail, and I have included all the system details:

PowerMac G4 1.07 GHz Single Core
Maxtor 120 GB HDD
1024 GB SDRAM (in 2x512MB sticks)

Came with: Sony CD-R/RW Drive Unit Model No. CRX140E, jumpers set to IDE-Master

I installed a: LiteON DVD Writer, Model No. LH-20A1H186C, jumpers set to IDE-Master

Boots Fedora 7 PPC install disk from DVD but doesn't seem to properly recognize the MacOS X 10.4.6 install disk that I have that came with my intel-based MacBook:

MacOS X 10.4.6 build: 8I2025

Instead displays the following:

Code:
panic(cpu 0 caller 0x002E0Bf4); Unable to find driver for this platform: "PowerMac3,4".

Latest stack backtrace for cpu 0:
	Backtrace:
		0x00099EA4 0x0009A860 0x00027A28 0x00230BF4 0x002BCC60 0x002BDD80 0x002BFC28 0x002BED3C 0x000ADE14
Proceeding back via exception chain:
	Exception state (sv=0x0125E500)
	PC=0x00000000; MSR=0x0000D030; DAR=0x00000000; DSISR=0x00000000; LR=0x00000000; R1=0x00000000; XCP=0x00000000 (Unknown)

Kernel version:
(cannot read, Restart dialogue in the way)

No debugger configured - dumping debug information
MSR=00001030
Latest stack backtrace for cpu 0:
	Backtrace:
		0x00099EA4 0x0009A860 0x00027A28 0x00230BF4 0x002BCC60 0x002BDD80 0x002BFC28 0x002BED3C 0x000ADE14
Proceeding back via exception chain:
	Exception state (sv=0x0125E500)
	PC=0x00000000; MSR=0x0000D030; DAR=0x00000000; DSISR=0x00000000; LR=0x00000000; R1=0x00000000; XCP=0x00000000 (Unknown)

panic: We are hanging here... Thu Apr 13 18:51:54 PDT 2006; root:xnu-792.9.59.obj

with the "You need to restart your computer" dialogue in several different languages overtop.

I may be able to get my hands on a retail version of 10.4.x but need to know if this might solve the problem.

Help?
 

tyr2

macrumors 6502a
May 6, 2006
826
217
Leeds, UK
Boots Fedora 7 PPC install disk from DVD but doesn't seem to properly recognize the MacOS X 10.4.6 install disk that I have that came with my intel-based MacBook

You can only use the install media that came with your MacBook with a MacBook it won't work anything else and certainly not a PPC based machine.

A retail copy of Tiger should work fine.
 

martigras

macrumors newbie
Original poster
Oct 13, 2007
2
0
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
@ tyr2:

You can only use the install media that came with your MacBook with a MacBook it won't work anything else and certainly not a PPC based machine.

A retail copy of Tiger should work fine.

Thanks, this definitely eliminates a LOT of confusion for me. I figured as much, but wanted to be sure. Good to know, I think I have an ADC 10.4 set of disks around somewhere...

Cheers!
 
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