Does that still work? I thought that was only with vintage macs.
If that doesn't work, hold the Option button while you boot, and when
it boots to the firmware, wait until the cursor becomes the mouse
instead of the watch, then press the eject button on the keyboard.
That WILL eject it, no matter what. If your keyboard doesn't have an
eject button, press Command(apple)+E.
-Elliott Price
Mac Computer Repair - Santa Barbara
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On Oct 21, 2009, at 6:51 PM, Dan wrote:
>
> At 8:07 PM -0500 10/21/2009, williamd wrote:
>> I decided to try FreeBSD on my G4 imac. It would not erase the
>> partition i already had with os 10.4.11 on it. So i decided to erase
>> that with my 10.4 cd and try again. Now I have erased the drive so
>> the cd is seen as the start up drive and will not eject. I tried
>> restarting and starting cold trying to eject the cd before it was
>> recognised as the startup disk, but no luck. I even tried to pull the
>> tray out manually but it is tenacious. I see no pinhole for the magic
>> paper clip trick. Soooo.... any other ideas?
>
> Hold the mouse button down while you boot.
>
> - Dan.
> --
> - Psychoceramic Emeritus; South Jersey, USA, Earth.
>
> >
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