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Q: Power Mac G4 refusing to boot to CD

Hello, I am currently collecting vintage Macs, and one of those is a Power Mac G4 Quicksilver (867MHz). At one point, it had Mac OS X 10.4.11, and I wanted to wipe it  since the previous owner left lots of junk in the system. But now, all I can boot up to is a gray screen with a flashing question mark in a hard drive icon.

 

I have a Mac OS 10.3 install disc that I tried, and the drive starts spinning, but never boots into it, a Mac OS 9.2.2 disc that does the same thing. However, I have a Mac OS X Public Beta CD. I put that in the drive, and it does show up on the menu with the different volumes. That starts loading up like normal, but then I get a Kernel Panic.

 

Anyone have any ideas? I've searched the Apple Support Community numerous times, but couldn't find a useful answer.

PowerMac, G4 QuickSilver

Posted on Jun 12, 2015 8:43 AM

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