[X4U] iMac will not boot

Andrew T. Lynch atlynch at mac.com
Wed Sep 14 10:33:20 PDT 2005


Good idea.  Will do tonight.  I did boot from the hardware  
diagnostics disk, and all tests passed, surprise, surprise.

-Drew

On Sep 14, 2005, at 10:25 AM, Wayne Wilkin wrote:

> 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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