I am gathering that you don't have any other equipment to connect to
the iMac. If you had an internal or external DVD drive you could boot
w the installer disc by holding down the c key until the disc boots or
the option key until you can select the disc as startup. If you can't
open your disc tray try booting into open firmware. While powering on
the mac hold down option o and f keys until you see a text prompt to
release. The. Type eject cd. Your tray should open. Now insert your
install cd and type reset all and hold down the c key again. I hope
some of this helps.
DON'T PANIC!
Sent from my Electronic Thumb
On Aug 21, 2010, at 7:01 PM, Gary Fortman <gfort...@isd.net> wrote:
Hard drives have configurations for slave or master depending on if
they are the boot drive or a secondary drive.
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On Aug 21, 2010, at 5:26 PM, Alex Barnes <kab...@gmail.com> wrote:
What's that?
Tom Venney wrote:
Is the HD set for Cable Select?
On Aug 21, 2010, at 3:22 PM, Alex Barnes wrote:
It won't it just freezes in the middle of the boot and that's
when I
using the bad HDD when I'm using the good ones it won't get past
the
folder with a question mark.
Jack Suggs wrote:
Will it boot with an OS installer CD in the drive?
Hold down the C key to start from a bootable disc (DVD, CD)
On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 10:47 AM, Alex Barnes <kab...@gmail.com>
wrote:
I am reposting this because the old post I made got sidetracked
and I
could not get an answer.
I have an iMac G4 that will not boot past the folder with a
question
mark. I have tried this using 3 different HDDs and the only one
that I
can get to boot any farther is a bad HDD (it's also the only HDD
that
any of my computers will recognize). I have tried booting the
computer
using Mac OS 9, 10.1, 10.2, and Debian Linux. All stop in the
middle
of the boot.
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