[G4] firmware: update needed?

[Ronald Steinke]

On 12 Mar, 2008, at 7:55 PM, Karen H wrote:

> There's an intel imac at my place, running 10.4 (with the disks that  
> shipped with it). There are two disks, labelled "install disk 1" and  
> "install disk 2." I'm assured these are the only disks it came with.  
> (so no restore disks).
>
> I just tried using these disks (even though there are 2 of them, not  
> 1) to install on my G4 GigE computer (which is running 10.3.9)

The answer to your problem is in your posting.

You tried to use an Intel chip installation disc on a Power PC  
machine. It won't work at all. The result was the Kernel Panic that  
you saw on the screen.

Go back to step one and find a generic OS installation disc to install  
from. It could cost you some dollars, but the end result will be worth  
the expense. OS 10.4 will give you better performance and capabilities  
than 10.3 did.