Turned out to be a hosed boot partition. Using Option on startup, I finally got the CD-ROM of Panther Disk 1 to boot and the OS X partition is totally hosed, won't mount, won't repair, even has a different name than the one I had given it. I reinstalled Panther on another partition but the damaged one still won't mount nor repair in Disk Utilities. Does anyone know what tools I could use to recover it and get it mounted? k On Apr 4, 2005, at 2:36 AM, Luis Meleiro wrote: > k, > > Have you tried reseting the PRAM!? If this does not work, maybe you > could also try pressing the CUDA button. > > LM > >>>> Kunga at FutureMedia.org - 03/04/2005 22:36 PM >>> > My Cube 500 won't boot. Hangs at the opening grey Apple without the > spinning circle ever showing up. Won't boot from the install CD holding > down the C key. Seems not to recognize the IDE CD-ROM drive nor an > external FireWire drive. Can't boot into FireWire mode either. The > drive appears to be hosed although I did nothing special for this to > happen. Any ideas? > > k