Re: [OT] Unable to install 10.2 on a PowerMac G3 B&W 400MHz

FROM : Nick Beadman
DATE : Sat Nov 16 20:49:32 2002

Thanks for all the replies I got on this, I finally succeeded in
installing it last night.

Turns out it was a bad DVD-ROM drive ! I disassembled my CD-RW and
installed off of that with no problem. Strange thing is that I have had
no problems with that drive up till now.

Nick

On Wednesday, November 13, 2002, at 08:11  pm, Nick Beadman wrote:

> Hey,
>
> I am trying to install 10.2 on an old(ish) blue and white PowerMac G3
> and it is hanging during boot. If I boot verbose then the relevant
> error messages appear to be:
>
> [snip]
> using 327 buffer headers and 327 cluster IO buffer headers
> panic(cpu0): Unable to find driver for this platform: "PowerMac1,1".
> [snip]
>
> It then does a stack backtrace and exception chain followed by
>
> Kernel version:
> Darwin Kernel Version 6.0:
> Sat Jul 27 13:18:52 PDT 2002; root:xnu/xnu-344.obj~1/RELEASE_PPC
>
> and finally the cute error:
>
> panic: We are hanging here...
>
> I realise that I should probably ask on the Darwin list but I am not a
> member. Does anyone have any idea on why this would happen and what I
> can do about it ? I have removed all of the non-factory installed RAM
> and am booting from a CD of the 6C115 build that the same day I
> installed on my PowerBook G4.
>
> Thanks,
> Nick
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