[X4U] iMac will not boot

Wayne Wilkin macsys at mac.com
Wed Sep 14 10:25:38 PDT 2005


Have you tried to boot from the apple software cd and run repair permissions?
 
On Wednesday, September 14, 2005, at 01:01PM, Andrew T. Lynch <atlynch at mac.com> wrote:

>Hi Folks,
>   My kids 700 mHz crt iMac will boot from CD, but not from the  
>internal hard drive.  I booted from the diskwarrior CD, and was able  
>to run diskwarrior on the internal drive.  I have zapped the pram,  
>and done a reset-nvram and reset-all from open firmware.
>
>I get the White screen with the apple, but it never progresses to the  
>spinning little clock thingy or to the blue screen.  I've let it sit  
>there for 10 minutes with no progress.
>
>Any Clues?
>
>-Drew
>
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