Get A Mac To Spit Out A CD.
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Posted: 04 October 2006 08:05 AM   [ Ignore ]  
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I tried installing my Mac osx cd that came with my Intel iMac on my PPC Mac mini and when I restart now it gives me a grey screen with this message:

panic(cpu 0 caller 0x002DFAA8): Unable to find driver for this platform: “Powermac10.1”

Anywayz is there a way I can get it to spit out my cd so it can go back to normal again?

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Posted: 04 October 2006 02:13 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 1 ]  
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Start your Mac, and keep the mouse button clicked.
Happened the same (less or more) to me when i gave a try to uncle’s PowerBook Panther on my iMac G3.

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Posted: 04 October 2006 02:54 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 2 ]  
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There’s about 100 of these little “tricks” in a Mac that no one seems to know or remember. For example, starting up with a boot CD is hold down the “C” key. Duh. Spitting out a CD when rebooting a Mac is to click and hold the mouse at the chime. Selecting a startup disk from multiple drives is hold down the Option key at the chime.

There’s a bunch of things like this. Someone should publish a list. Hmmmm. Apple? It’d be nice to have a little card or booklet in each new Mac with all those keyboard shortcuts, and tricks and tips.

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Posted: 04 October 2006 03:50 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 3 ]  
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Those are the ones i know:
apple + s single user mode, aka no gui. useful only if you know what to do.
apple + alt + p + r pressed for 2(or 4, i heard both the version) bong will reset the pram, that holds some info like the volume of the speakers
t gets the Mac in target mode, and you can use it as a firewire hd.
c starts from the cd/dvd
shift will boot the Mac in safe mode, that will do some automated tide up (the start up like this one is slow) and won’t load extra kernel extensions and stuff
mouse clicked will eject the disc in the optical drive

Uhm… probably others, now i can’t remember them.

Oh, almost forgot this one: it seems that the menu button on the Apple remote will lead to the same result as option key (that i friendly call “alt")

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Posted: 04 October 2006 06:05 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 4 ]  
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thank you guys for the useful tips!! the holding down the mouse button did the trick for me ^.^

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Posted: 05 October 2006 02:53 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 5 ]  
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RonnieMac - 04 October 2006 02:54 PM

Someone should publish a list. Hmmmm. Apple? It’d be nice to have a little card or booklet in each new Mac with all those keyboard shortcuts, and tricks and tips.

Grab the “xCuts" widget. It has the list you’re looking for.

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Posted: 11 October 2006 12:46 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 6 ]  
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I need to get a screenshot of my macs desktop now… a pop-up just came up telling me my windows registry may have errors in it… I’m on a mac hello?

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Posted: 11 October 2006 01:55 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 7 ]  
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Get X-Cuts, it’ll show you how.

but until then, it’s cmnd-shift-3 for the whole screen, cmnd-shift-4 to drag-select a region. These will save the image as a file on the desktop.

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Posted: 21 February 2007 11:27 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 8 ]  
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Hey all

I get the same message for trying to install Tiger on my mac mini.  Why am i getting this message and is there a fix for this error?

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Posted: 21 February 2007 11:43 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 9 ]  
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MWDHAND - 21 February 2007 11:27 PM

I get the same message for trying to install Tiger on my mac mini.  Why am i getting this message and is there a fix for this error?

Is this the error message? What version of Tiger? Mac mini PPC, right?

panic(cpu 0 caller 0x002DFAA8): Unable to find driver for this platform: “Powermac10.1”

Are you getting that error when booting up from the Tiger DVD?

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Posted: 22 February 2007 01:17 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 10 ]  
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Here is the first line of the error:

panic (cpu 0 caller 0X002e4900: unable to find driver platform: “Power Mac 10,1”.

Then it does a backtrace looks at the kernal version the debugger and then does another backtrace and then asks me to restart.

The Apple website says it is compatable and I am new to the mac world so i am a little like a fish out of water here ( but loving the mac better than pc)

and yes I am getting this error when i insert the disc and restart like it tells me.

Thanks all

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Posted: 22 February 2007 01:33 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 11 ]  
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That looks like a kernel panic, which doesn’t happen often on new Macs, but happens. The first thing would be to check RAM, the second would be to check the motherboard, both of which can be checked at the nearest Apple Store Genius Bar.

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Posted: 22 February 2007 04:31 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 12 ]  
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I wouldn’t rule out the OS CD that comes with Intel Macs being Intel-only, or close. it’s been my experience that the restore disks have been more hardware specific than boxed, store-bought OS disks. Which of course only makes sense.

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Posted: 27 February 2007 07:27 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 13 ]  
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I have found, similar to Chevalier’s experience, that the restore discs want the machine they were shipped with. A different model means an unhappy place.

Oh, if you want an even easier screen cap, use the command-shift-4 bit, but then hit the space bar. The pointer will become a camera and take a picture of just the window over which it is hovering (it will be highlighted in the same shade as you get for selecting an Exposé window). Many of the widget sites out there give this information because it makes the screen caps look better. It all goes back to that moment that Steve insisted that rounded rectangles ship with the original Macs, extra memory requirements be damned (the story is in the first or second chapter of Insanely Great, I believe).

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