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User profile for user: malle eppie
malle eppie Author
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install OSX 10.4.7 on iMac G3 creates panic messages, someone plz help me?!

Hi,

I got this iMac G3 with OS 9.1 installed on the hdd. I first updated the firmware and then swapped the hdd for an empty one (with was once used on a windows system)

I try to install OSX 10.4.7 (original grey cd's for iMac) on my iMac G3
Short after reading the cd I get the following screen: grey with a black window witch says: "you need to restart your computer .Hold down the Powerbutton for several seconds or press the restart button" in several languages.

shown over this screen I see multiple lines with several panic and kernel messages.

the first line says: panic (cpu 0 caller 0x002E49D0): unable to find driver for this platform: "Powermac2,1".
I pressume that the last line mentions the problem witch causes the hanging?

Last line says:
Kernel version:
Darwin Kernel Version 8.7.3: Tue Aug 8 18:13:19 PDT 2006; root:xnu-792.11.2obj~1/RELEASE_PPC
panic: We are hanging here...

I strolled off the internet using this last message to find an answer for this "panic" but no results.

Pressing d or c while starting up doesn't matter, I instantly get the screen as discribed.
I did reset-nvram and then reset-all, still the same screen shown.

And yes, I'm new to the "appleworld", I've had it with windows, so hopefully i'm only making newbie errors 😉

Anybody here who can help me out?


PS: i made a picture of the screen, but don't know how to upload it here (might not be possible anyway)

iMac G3, Mac OS X (10.4.7), iMac G3 - 400mhz.

Posted on Jan 17, 2008 6:18 AM

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User profile for user: Klaus1
Klaus1
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Jan 17, 2008 6:36 AM in response to malle eppie

Does your G3 met these?

Minimum System Requirements for OS X 10.4 Tiger:

• A PowerPC G3, G4, or G5 processor
• Built-in FireWire
• At least 256 MB of RAM
• DVD drive (DVD-ROM), Combo (CD-RW/DVD-ROM) or SuperDrive (DVD-R) for installation
• At least 3 GB of free disk space; 4 GB if you install the XCode 2 Developer Tools
More information here:

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=301341

Secondly:

swapped the hdd for an empty one (with was once used on a windows system)

Did you reformat that drive to Mac OS Extended (Journaled)?
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User profile for user: Klaus1
Klaus1
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Jan 17, 2008 8:06 AM in response to malle eppie

I'm not sure about the built-in firewire, where can I check?

Yes, I am not sure if G3's came with firewire. Look in the Apple Menu under About his Mac, that will tell you.

i figured that formating a hdd would be a build in feature on the iMac install cd...

Nope!

You can do this in Disk Utility.

The hard disk not being correctly formatted will probably have given you those 'panic messages'.
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User profile for user: malle eppie
malle eppie Author
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Jan 17, 2008 11:03 AM in response to Klaus1

Hi Klaus,

Well, I swapped back the hdd so the iMac runs OS 9.1 again.
The systeminfo tells me that it has firewire (also 2 firewire ports on the side of the machine), the processor is a powermac G3, it has 2 memory banks each 256 MB. a Slot-in DVD player and 20 GB hdd. So it meets al system requirements

Now I restarted the machine holding down the d button (witch was mentioned on the label disk 1 to check the system). Nothing happens, it just starts up in OS 9.1

I restarted again holding down the c button (also mentioned on the label of disk 1 to start up from OSX cd). I get the same screen as mentioned in the first post.

The weirdest part is that this hdd is at least formated for mac, cause OS 9.1 is installed....
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User profile for user: malle eppie
malle eppie Author
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Jan 17, 2008 11:41 AM in response to Klaus1

Indeed, i can see some folders and other things.
I read somewhere that i should read the install document first. when i double clicked it, it says that it's not possible to open this file with os 9.1

After I double clicked the OSX installer, the machine restarts, and yes.... the screen with all panics pops up again....

I fear that the iMac is in some way not required, but do hope there are mutiple options left....?

thanks sofar anyway, klaus!
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User profile for user: malle eppie
malle eppie Author
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Jan 18, 2008 3:12 AM in response to Klaus1

I'm sorry, didn't mean to confuse you. I was a little ahead of the facts while filling in the states, I now changed it to OS 9.1.....

I got this iMac G3 second hand with OS 9.1 installed. It's an ex company machine, and they sold several iMac's to employees. I got it from an employee, over a year ago, but didn't use it untill now. I bought the original OSX 10.4.7 (2 cd's for iMac) from someone else.

So my G3 iMac didn't come with Panther, and I actually don't understand what you mean with pre-date OS X.
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User profile for user: Henk Doorenspleet
Henk Doorenspleet
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Jan 18, 2008 10:36 AM in response to malle eppie

HI Eppie (gek hoor)

I upgrade a lot of G3 from OS9 to Tiger. As we speak/type I'm doing a G3 500 MHz. I created a Tiger clone on a Hard disk so I can do the upgrade also on G3s without a DVD player.
The process USED to work smooth until a few minutes ago:
-- I upgraded my clone to 10.4.11 first: the clone disk was connected to a already long ago upgraded G3: went well
-- I upgraded the OS9 G3 on the firmware level
-- Tried to boot the G3 from the clone disk>>>BANG crash
-- Fortunately I had also a 10.4.4 clone on the same disk (other partition) and the target booted very well from that partition.

Conclusion (until now)
iMac G3 with OS9 on the HDD and upgraded firmware won't leap to recent versions of tiger (I don't know where the break point is it's between 10.4.4 and 10.4.11

I'm right now transfering 10.4.4 and for the sake of the experiment I will look after the the target G3 is running 10.4.4. if I can boot from the external HDD partition with 10.4.11. If it works I'll transfer that one and having a clean 10.4.11 on a 7 old imac


Hope this helps

Henk
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User profile for user: malle eppie
malle eppie Author
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Jan 21, 2008 5:55 AM in response to Henk Doorenspleet

Hello Henk,

I did format the new hdd using OS 9.1. then I swapped the hdd's so now there's a blank hdd, formatted HFS+ inside of the iMac G3. Inserting the install disk gave the same errormessages with wich I started this tread.

Installing OSX 10.4.7 on a blank (formatted) hdd doesn't work. do you have a boot image with 10.4.4 for me? maybe on a disk...

Or else, please advise me on the next step(s)....
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install OSX 10.4.7 on iMac G3 creates panic messages, someone plz help me?!

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