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#1 2006-07-19 6:43 pm
iMac: no cd boot
One of our campus computer departments recently gave our department a couple of iMacs, G4s. The swivel ones, not the CRT or the G5. I'm having some problems getting them to boot from a cd; they'll only boot from the hard drive and then get stuck at a login prompt.
I figure it's a open firmware issue, so I booted with option-apple-o-f, did a reset-nvram, set-defaults, reset-all, zapped the pram, in hopes it would clear our all of the settings and let me boot from cd or atleast as a single user.
No luck, however. Now it just freezes up at the gray login screen with the spinner. Suggestions?
I can boot as a firewire drive, however. That holds a little hope.
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#2 2006-07-19 6:51 pm
- clownballs
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Re: iMac: no cd boot
If you hold down the c button as the computer starts up with the cd in the drive will it boot up from it?
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