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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 1,825
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
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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...
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xpcman Posts 19528 Registration date Wednesday October 8, 2008 Status Contributor Last seen June 15, 2019 1,825
Jan 7, 2012 at 01:20 PM
Wikipedia might help

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