G4 Cube Giving Kernel Panic When Installing 10.4

[Temetka]

Leopard will run just fine on your cube.

Boot your power ook off the leopard install disc.

Power on the cube and hold down the "T" key.

On your PowerBook you should be able to see the cube mounted as an external drive. Just tell the installer to install to the cubes hard drive and you should be good to go.

If this were my machine I would also tell the installer to wipe the cubes hard drive before installing.

Once the installer has finished up, go ahead and power off both machines. Then remove the FireWire cable, and boot up the cube. If all went well you should be greater wig the leopard flying through space intro movie and then the OS X setup assistant.

Post back here with your results.

 

[johnklos]

Leopard will take more memory, but it'll make better use of your video card. Aside from perhaps booting, I can't think of anything in 10.5 which would be slower than 10.4. Leopard will let you run more software like Safari 5, though.

 

[Gorgonops]

Of course, if the point of the Cube is to play "older games" then 10.4 will let you run "Classic" while Leopard doesn't. Don't know if that's a factor here, of course.

 

[Tempest]

Well there's really no reason for me to run Classic as I have 9.2 installed on another partition.

 

[~Coxy]

Leopard broke a few older programs for me. The only one I specifically remember was Romeo (bluetooth app) though, so it may be fine.

 

[Tempest]

I'm probably only going to run Fallout 1/2, SCUMM VM, Heretic / Hexen, Diablo II / Starcraft and stuff like that. Pretty major and standard stuff.

 

[Tempest]

I'm getting further. I decided to install SO 10.4 via the firewire cable and it appeared to install. Then I tried to boot from that drive via the firewire cable and I got the prohibitory sign (circle with slash). So I'm not able to boot from the drive on my G4 via my laptop through target disk mode. If I can't boot from it then I can't update it. Any ideas?

If all else fails I can swap the video card, but I'd rather not open it up if I can help it.

EDIT: Ok I was able to update to 10.4.4 through the firewire cable (Apple's downloads for 10.4 updates appears to be down and this was all I could find on another site). I still get a prohibitory sign when I try to boot off that drive either through the laptop using the target disk mode or on the actual Cube itself. Very odd.

 

[Tempest]

Oh and I decided to go with Tiger over Leopard because Tiger only took 4.5GB to install while Leopard wanted around 13GB. My partition is only 15GB so that wouldn't work too well. Why does Leopard require three times as much room?

 

[iMac600]

Leopard contains both PowerPC and Intel code on the one disc and installs both during setup (technically it would be way too difficult to keep separate binaries or only install the specific binaries). So you have at least twice the operating system right there, not counting additional components like the 700mb Apple Alex voice, frameworks and extras to support Time Machine and Spaces, and so on.

 

[Tempest]

Ok looks like I got it to work. I guess the first time was just a bad install.

EDIT: Ok may have spoken too soon. It booted in Target Disk Mode, but on the real thing it hangs at a blue screen after the apple logo.

 

[Tempest]

Ok I can get it to boot if I hold down shift to turn off the boot items. However there don't actually appear to be any boot items in the account menu (other than some iTunes helper thing which removing didn't help).

 

[Tempest]

Success. It boots up now. No idea what I did, but it's working now.