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Jul 7, 2012 5:49 PM in response to Ronda Wilsonby macfreakoops,The drive that the key lime does indeed boot from has Mac OS 10.4.11 installed on it. The drive from the blueberry has OS 9.2 installed on it.
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Jul 7, 2012 11:54 PM in response to macfreakoopsby Ronda Wilson,★Helpfulmacfreakoops wrote:
The ribbon cable is not the problem. I finally got the key lime to boot from an ibook g4 drive. Now I just have to put OS9 on the 10 gb drive. Hopefully it works!
Do you mean that you installed the drive from the iBook G4 drive as an internal drive in the Key Lime iBook, and it would boot from that iBook G4's hard drive, then?
If so, chances are that the 10 GB hard drive has failed.
Consideration must be given to the idea of an firmware password being a part of the problem if it will not boot from an Install disc or into Single-user mode because a firmware password disables those functions (among many others).
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1352?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US
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Jul 10, 2012 8:09 PM in response to Ronda Wilsonby macfreakoops,Ok. I got another 10gb hard drive. This one is gaurenteed working. I can boot from the HD but still not from the CD. I have tried a few CDs as well. Still can't boot into single user mode either. I can boot holding "option". I also know the passwords for this hard drive
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Jul 10, 2012 8:18 PM in response to Ronda Wilsonby macfreakoops,When I try to open the "Sorfware Install" application on the CD, I get the alert that says, "This program cannot run on your computer. See the documentation for more information." I am using the disks that came with the original blueberry and tangerine iBooks. I can not start up from a Mac OS 9.0.4 install cd either. The HD has Mac OS 9.2.2 installed on it. Is this CD too old for this computer? What disk should I use?
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Jul 10, 2012 8:35 PM in response to macfreakoopsby macfreakoops,FINALLY! After digging through my software I found a restore disk that worked with the iBook. The original HD was on its last leg. Thanks for all your help!
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