Does anybody know what the phrase can't find driver mean?

I have a PowerMac 4,2 and it won't start up for me It goes to a black and white screen and has the words panic,and unable to find driver
for this platform. Does anybody know what that means,and what do I have to do to fix it. Thank you and have a great day Dale

It means you have likely installed something for Intel Macs that runs at startup that won't work with that Mac.  If you moved a hard drive with Mac OS X 10.6 or later on it to the Powermac, that would cause such a problem.  If you connected a hard drive with 10.6 or later on it on it that was running Target Disk Mode (booting the Intel machine holding the T key) to it, that would cause such a problem.  If you attempted to install 10.4.4 or later system specific disc on a hard drive that was designed for an Intel Mac, and moved it to that machine, that would cause such a problem.  If you attempted to install a GUID formatted partition hard drive as opposed to Apple partition map on the machine, that could cause such a problem.

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