New to the MAC world.
Acquired a used Power Mac G4 so I could get familiar with Macs. The seller said he tried to put a Linux O/S on both Hard Drives but gave up. “Everything Else worked” (I knew the guy so I don’t think he would intentionally do me wrong) Here’s the Specs and the story…
Power mac G4 1.42GHZ-DP, 2gb of ram, 2-180gb hard drives, HD/DVD-R/CDRW/DVD CDRW, R9000PRO (video card) and no OS, keyboard and mouse.
Using a windows keyboard and trackball mouse; I decided to I load a “tiger” OS X disk and booted up the G4. The Chime sounded nice, then the “folder” looking thing came up, then the Grey screen with a dark grey apple logo comes up. In about 30-45 seconds I get a mess on the screen: Black screen with white writing. Something about kernel error and “panic: we are hanging here”
At first I thought it was a Software issue but my friend formatted the hard drives and tried the Disk and said the tiger disk tried to boot correctly on his Mac Book. I reseated the memory and the video card. Still not loading the disk
Any suggestions or do you need other info? Thanks and I’m sorry this is such a long post.
Acquired a used Power Mac G4 so I could get familiar with Macs. The seller said he tried to put a Linux O/S on both Hard Drives but gave up. “Everything Else worked” (I knew the guy so I don’t think he would intentionally do me wrong) Here’s the Specs and the story…
Power mac G4 1.42GHZ-DP, 2gb of ram, 2-180gb hard drives, HD/DVD-R/CDRW/DVD CDRW, R9000PRO (video card) and no OS, keyboard and mouse.
Using a windows keyboard and trackball mouse; I decided to I load a “tiger” OS X disk and booted up the G4. The Chime sounded nice, then the “folder” looking thing came up, then the Grey screen with a dark grey apple logo comes up. In about 30-45 seconds I get a mess on the screen: Black screen with white writing. Something about kernel error and “panic: we are hanging here”
At first I thought it was a Software issue but my friend formatted the hard drives and tried the Disk and said the tiger disk tried to boot correctly on his Mac Book. I reseated the memory and the video card. Still not loading the disk
Any suggestions or do you need other info? Thanks and I’m sorry this is such a long post.