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Upgrade to 10.3 - now my mac won't start
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<blockquote data-quote="Avalon" data-source="post: 55317" data-attributes="member: 5184"><p>holding 'C' gets you in OpenFirmware?! That's strange...</p><p>It should make the Mac boot from CD/DVD, and if there's no disk in the drive, it tries to boot from the harddisk...but going to OpenFirmware? I tried to replicate your situation, and I never managed to get to OF with pressing 'C'...</p><p></p><p>Anyway, another try would be to press 'option' (or 'alt') while starting up, with the system CD/DVD in the drive. After a while, you should get an icon for every bootable partition or disk of your Mac (in your case, I suppose that would be your HD with the dead system, and your system CD/DVD). Select the CD/DVD, and your Mac will boot from there, giving you the possibility to wipe your HD and reinstall everything from scratch.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Avalon, post: 55317, member: 5184"] holding 'C' gets you in OpenFirmware?! That's strange... It should make the Mac boot from CD/DVD, and if there's no disk in the drive, it tries to boot from the harddisk...but going to OpenFirmware? I tried to replicate your situation, and I never managed to get to OF with pressing 'C'... Anyway, another try would be to press 'option' (or 'alt') while starting up, with the system CD/DVD in the drive. After a while, you should get an icon for every bootable partition or disk of your Mac (in your case, I suppose that would be your HD with the dead system, and your system CD/DVD). Select the CD/DVD, and your Mac will boot from there, giving you the possibility to wipe your HD and reinstall everything from scratch. [/QUOTE]
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