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alleycat009
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OK... I'm at my wit's end here, and I'm not a standard Mac user. A dark blue iMac just recently came into my repair shop for some work. I figured, peace of cake, back up the data, reformat, install everything again, and it's ready to go. iMac's are made for the novice, right?
Well, first of all, simple as it should be, it says right on the recovery CD's for OS 8, that you hold down the C key while the computer is turning on to boot from CD. I've tried it without the CD in the drive, inserting it as the post chime goes off, and I've tried it with the CD already in the drive. It boots from the hard drive every time. So, I tried wiping the hard drive clean of all partitions on my hard drive scanning PC... and all I get is an icon that alternates between the question mark symbol, and the mac os symbol. It does nothing else... even then, when I hold down the C key during bootup. I even tried using the boot menu, and it doesn't even list the CD.
I've also done the Option+Command+P+R bootup key sequence... I've updated the firmware to the latest for the iMac... (I managed to come across another iMac hard drive that still had an OS on it... however, loaded to the brim with errors too) and nothing seems to work.
Now... pirated software reporters, here we come... but for what I used this for, it's pretty legal, because I was only curious if it would boot from an OS X CD... so I downloaded a copy with Limewire, burned it, and it will not boot from that either.
I downloaded a copy of Mandrake 10.1 .... and THAT boots no problem. Every time, don't even have to push any keys. However... as much as I personally would prefer Linux, the customer does not want Linux on her computer, so I'm faced with still trying to get OS 8 back onto that machine.
Anyone got any clues on how to get this to go?
Well, first of all, simple as it should be, it says right on the recovery CD's for OS 8, that you hold down the C key while the computer is turning on to boot from CD. I've tried it without the CD in the drive, inserting it as the post chime goes off, and I've tried it with the CD already in the drive. It boots from the hard drive every time. So, I tried wiping the hard drive clean of all partitions on my hard drive scanning PC... and all I get is an icon that alternates between the question mark symbol, and the mac os symbol. It does nothing else... even then, when I hold down the C key during bootup. I even tried using the boot menu, and it doesn't even list the CD.
I've also done the Option+Command+P+R bootup key sequence... I've updated the firmware to the latest for the iMac... (I managed to come across another iMac hard drive that still had an OS on it... however, loaded to the brim with errors too) and nothing seems to work.
Now... pirated software reporters, here we come... but for what I used this for, it's pretty legal, because I was only curious if it would boot from an OS X CD... so I downloaded a copy with Limewire, burned it, and it will not boot from that either.
I downloaded a copy of Mandrake 10.1 .... and THAT boots no problem. Every time, don't even have to push any keys. However... as much as I personally would prefer Linux, the customer does not want Linux on her computer, so I'm faced with still trying to get OS 8 back onto that machine.
Anyone got any clues on how to get this to go?