On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 6:14 AM, Jimi Camel
wrote:
> Hi all,
> My faithful 1999 iMac Slot Loading has decided to stop working, when I
> boot it up all I get is a grey boot screen with the Apple logo but no
> spinning icon. The people in the Apple store told me to put in the
> install disk and hold
The OS 9 disk need to have been mastered after your mac was made. The Mac OS
Rom file in the System folder has to be the same or latter version of the
one on your original disk.
I had a problem with my iMac G4. It needs the file to be newer than the one
on the retail disk. I found a disk for an eM
Good news! I put the OS 9 disc in and booted holding the option key,
and the iMac decided to boot into OS X 10.3.9 just as it did before.
Typical, after having only just received my new iBook from eBay this
morning...
Thanks for all the help!
On 19 Feb, 14:44, Kasey Smith wrote:
> Well, the OS9 o
On Feb 19, 2010, at 6:58 AM, Jimi Camel wrote:
Not even OS 9? Oh well, I'm sure I can find the right disc some day...
The OS9 one /might/ work, the one i have that went with an earlier
square G3 iBook works on all my Macs here, as does the 10.1 disc that
came with it.
--
You received th
Well, the OS9 one *might* work. I have a grey disc for OS9 and OSX
10.1 from an iBook (one of the first ones that shipped with OSX) and
they work fine on my other Macs, but this is rare and only happens
with the older ones.
On Feb 19, 2010, at 6:58 AM, Jimi Camel wrote:
Not even OS 9? Oh w
Not even OS 9? Oh well, I'm sure I can find the right disc some day...
On 19 Feb, 13:43, Kasey Smith wrote:
> On Feb 19, 2010, at 5:14 AM, Jimi Camel wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> > My faithful 1999 iMac Slot Loading has decided to stop working, when I
> > boot it up all I get is a grey boot screen with
On Feb 19, 2010, at 5:14 AM, Jimi Camel wrote:
Hi all,
My faithful 1999 iMac Slot Loading has decided to stop working, when I
boot it up all I get is a grey boot screen with the Apple logo but no
spinning icon. The people in the Apple store told me to put in the
install disk and hold down "c",
Hi all,
My faithful 1999 iMac Slot Loading has decided to stop working, when I
boot it up all I get is a grey boot screen with the Apple logo but no
spinning icon. The people in the Apple store told me to put in the
install disk and hold down "c", but I do not have the original install
disk. It was
