I tried to boot from a CD, but that was not succesful, I guess something else must be damaged on my computer, since I am not able to get to the open firmware prompt, even if i disconnect the IDE cable. I still only get a white screen.
On 6/12/05, Brad Boyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Jun 12, 2005 at 12:42:26AM +0200, Marc Menem wrote: > > So I just bought a new drive and replaced the old one, but my computer > > won't boot, just the white screen. > > > > Correct me if I am wrong, but from what I understand about the system, > > apple computers don't have a bios but open firmware which is installed > > on the hard drive. So I guess that to get it fixed I would need one > > way or another to install open firmware on my new drive. How am I > > supposed to do this ? > > Have you tried booting from a CD or DVD? The new hard drive won't be > bootable in its initial state from the factory. If it's even formatted, > it will probably be setup with a DOS partition map and FAT or NTFS > filesystems. You just need to boot from some other device and reformat > it properly. I've done this a number of times with a variety of macs > and standard OEM hard drives. However, you may need to partition the > drive with Apple's Disk Utility to avoid problems. Last I checked, the > Linux utilities for mac style partitions run better changing an > existing partition than creating one from scratch. > > All of Open Firmware is onboard. You could boot the machine without a > hard drive at all as long as you have some other bootable device. > > Brad Boyer > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >