[X4U] help, iMac G5 will not boot

[Anthony Bailey]

Put your CD in and then restart as you may not have the CD in soon enough
for it to register and boot from. Also as others have said then hold down
the option key until the hd shows, choose the CD when the screen shows the
hard drive & CD. If the CD doesn't show click the rescan button and wait for
the CD to show. This may take a couple tries but then you should be able to
boot from the CD with no problems.
Tony


On 2/4/08 10:44 AM, "Kansas Territory" <kansast at mac.com> wrote:

> 
> On Feb 4, 2008, at 10:11 AM, Anthony Bailey wrote:
> 
>> Have you tried booting it up with the system software disk and
>> running disk
>> utility? That should either fix it or let you know more info about the
>> problem. Next step would be to try Diskwarrior or just wipe and re-
>> install.
>> This is a good reason to have an external bootable firewire hard
>> drive so
>> that when you have problems, you can boot up with this, and then
>> repair or
>> back up the internal hard drive.
> 
> I've tried booting up from the System CD, insert CD , hold down the C
> key restarting all that.. won't boot up from the CD either.
> Gray Apple and spinning wheel.
> 
> I'm a bit confused.. if I boot into single user mode, and I'm able to
> run fsck  and it reports back that the drive is O.K.    ?
> 
> Thanks for the replies all..
> 
> Any other suggestions ?
> 
> Would starting up the iMac in firewire mode or whatever it's called..
> and mount the drive from another computer ?  could I then run disk
> utility on it that way ?
> 
> 
> Kansast
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