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unusual messages when trying to switch to OS X
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rajones
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Jul 4, 2007, 04:44 AM
 
panic(cpu 0): unable to find driver for this platform: "PowerBook4.1"
Latest stack backtrace for cpu0:
Backtrace: 0x00080f70 0x00081310 etc etc and more
last line reads
Panic: we are hanging here... OMG how do I undo whatever I did? It's an ibook G3... but that's all I know... I hope someone can save me from myself.
     
analogika
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Jul 4, 2007, 07:11 AM
 
Clamshell iBook G3? The toilet-seat designs?

No Firewire?

Are you trying to install 10.4 Tiger on a G3 iBook without Firewire? That's an unsupported machine and will not work without a little hacking.

Search the web for XPostFacto, or, if you don't want to deal with that, install 10.3 Panther.

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