Well, to eject your disc, you can always hold down the mouse button on startup. That will force your mac to eject the disc. As for boot up, have you tried holding down the alt/option key to see if your mac is even recognising it as a startup disc? -s* On 5/5/07, lriv2264 at aim.com <lriv2264 at aim.com> wrote: > > I have a G4 that I'm trying to upgrade to OS X Tiger. I have two new SATA > drives connected to a PCI SATA host adapter. I install Tiger to one of the > drives and everything seems to install fine. When the machine restarts > however, the installer starts again and I can't eject the dvd from the > drive. To remove the dvd, I reconnected the old hard drive ( with os x > 10.3 on it ) and removed it. I then went to the startup disk in system > preferences and tried to start the machine with the new os x. But on > restart, all I get is a folder that blinks with a picture of the finder in > it. Please help me boot into my new os ! Thanks. > ------------------------------ > *Check Out the new free AIM(R) Mail*<http://pr.atwola.com/promoclk/100122638x1081283466x1074645346/aol?redir=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Eaim%2Ecom%2Ffun%2Fmail%2F>-- 2 GB of storage and industry-leading spam and email virus protection. > > _______________________________________________ > G4 mailing list > G4 at listserver.themacintoshguy.com > http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/g4 > > Listmom is trying to clean out his closets! Vintage Mac and random stuff: > http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZmacguy1984 > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/pipermail/g4/attachments/20070505/b0c0b5e5/attachment.html