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"No bootable device -- insert boot disk and press any key"
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<blockquote data-quote="dave39" data-source="post: 847520" data-attributes="member: 51538"><p>I have the same problem after trying to install Bootcamp with a Windows XP disc that I now realise was an upgrade, so half way through it wanted an original Windows 98, 2000 etc disk. I couldn't eject the disk (no eject button on Mac DVDs and eject button on keyboard did nothing) so had to shutdown and reboot with mouse buton held down to eject the disk. Now it is totally stuffed since all I get is "no boot drive found etc" and nothing I have tried will get it to boot up on OSX. It doesn't show OSX when I boot up with the Option key pressed, it doesn't boot up from the original OSX DVD that came with the MacMini, it doesn't boot up from an external drive with a clone of the working Mac drive before I tried to install BOOTCAMP. I have taken the drive out and erased it, I have cloned the drive of my other Macmini on to the erased drive but still get the Windows message. There can be no Windows partition on the drive since I erased it but somehow the Macmini is expecting a Windows boot up drive. The DVD drive powers up when a disk is put in but the OSX disk doesn't go into setup mode or any Apple OSX mode. It doesn't reset the PRAM with option-command-P-R no second chime is heard, it simply goes into a Windows message how it does this with no Windows partition is beyond my comprehension. Are there any other combination of keystrokes that might get me into terminal mode whereby I could write some instruction although what is another question. It is a Macmini 1.66Ghz, Intel, 2Gb RAM 300Gb HDD, OSX10.5.6.</p><p></p><p>Anyone got any bright ideas. I'm not alone with this problem, plenty of people have come across according to the posts on the Apple discussion forum but are quite the same as my problem and none of the suggested answers have worked when I tried them.</p><p></p><p>I am totally lost at this point. It was a nice little Macmini working quite happily until I stupidly tried to put Bootcamp onto it rather than using Parallels.</p><p></p><p>Dave</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="dave39, post: 847520, member: 51538"] I have the same problem after trying to install Bootcamp with a Windows XP disc that I now realise was an upgrade, so half way through it wanted an original Windows 98, 2000 etc disk. I couldn't eject the disk (no eject button on Mac DVDs and eject button on keyboard did nothing) so had to shutdown and reboot with mouse buton held down to eject the disk. Now it is totally stuffed since all I get is "no boot drive found etc" and nothing I have tried will get it to boot up on OSX. It doesn't show OSX when I boot up with the Option key pressed, it doesn't boot up from the original OSX DVD that came with the MacMini, it doesn't boot up from an external drive with a clone of the working Mac drive before I tried to install BOOTCAMP. I have taken the drive out and erased it, I have cloned the drive of my other Macmini on to the erased drive but still get the Windows message. There can be no Windows partition on the drive since I erased it but somehow the Macmini is expecting a Windows boot up drive. The DVD drive powers up when a disk is put in but the OSX disk doesn't go into setup mode or any Apple OSX mode. It doesn't reset the PRAM with option-command-P-R no second chime is heard, it simply goes into a Windows message how it does this with no Windows partition is beyond my comprehension. Are there any other combination of keystrokes that might get me into terminal mode whereby I could write some instruction although what is another question. It is a Macmini 1.66Ghz, Intel, 2Gb RAM 300Gb HDD, OSX10.5.6. Anyone got any bright ideas. I'm not alone with this problem, plenty of people have come across according to the posts on the Apple discussion forum but are quite the same as my problem and none of the suggested answers have worked when I tried them. I am totally lost at this point. It was a nice little Macmini working quite happily until I stupidly tried to put Bootcamp onto it rather than using Parallels. Dave [/QUOTE]
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