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PowerBook G4 needs OS

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Punky - Jan 5, 2012 at 10:32 PM
xpcman Posts 19528 Registration date Wednesday October 8, 2008 Status Contributor Last seen June 15, 2019 - Jan 7, 2012 at 01:20 PM
A friend gave me a PowerBook G4, presumably erased clean. I turned it on and got the flashing, alternating question mark/(Finder symbol? - can't remember.)

I have Tiger Install Discs from my iMac, but when I insert and restart I get words and code including but not limited to "panic(cpu 0 caller 0x002E59BC): Unable to find driver for this platform: "PowerBook6, 2".

The last line reads "panic: We are hanging here..."

Any suggestions for getting this thing up and running? Thx.



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xpcman Posts 19528 Registration date Wednesday October 8, 2008 Status Contributor Last seen June 15, 2019 1,824
Jan 6, 2012 at 02:48 PM
You need a OS built for the PowerPC chip. Depending on the model PowerBook you have you can use OSX 10.4.11 (Tiger) or 10.5.8 (Lepard) or the older 9.2.2 OS.

Good Luck
Punky
Jan 7, 2012 at 12:08 AM
Thanks for the reply.

How do I find out which model it is? It's a silver 13" PowerBook G4. I thought that was the model...
xpcman Posts 19528 Registration date Wednesday October 8, 2008 Status Contributor Last seen June 15, 2019 1,824
Jan 7, 2012 at 01:20 PM
Wikipedia might help

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PowerBook_G4