iMac g5 is stuck at white startup screen with apple logo & spinning circle
Hello,
i had a digital copy of os x leopard and i was trying to reinstall it, so i would double click on install mac os x, and it would tell me to restart, i would do this but nothing happened so i had to mount the disk again and double click install mac os x, and it told me to restart again. so i looked up how to install leopard from a dmg file, and it said to restore the dmg to the drive, so i went into disk utility and i put the source as the dmg, and the destination i dragged the imac hdd icon. it finished and i was gonna select the leopard file as my startup disk in system preferences, but that wouldnt run. i then noticed some of the letters were missing on the name of the icons in the dock, so i just restarted the computer, but it got stuck on the white screen. i tried lots of stuff like turning on while holding shift, but it didnt do anything, and i tried with cmd+s and that gave me some black command prompt where i typed/sbin/fsck -fy and that did some stuff and it said my drive was okay, but it still wont start up. What do i do?!?!
Hi guitarraholic, and a warm welcome to the forums! 🙂
i had a digital copy of os x leopard...
No DVD? You need a DVD unless you have another boot drive.
so i looked up how to install leopard from a dmg file, and it said to restore the dmg to the drive, so i went into disk utility and i put the source as the dmg, and the destination i dragged the imac hdd icon.
Hopefully you didn't try that while booted from the drive you tried to Restore to!
i tried the C key and it didnt do anything, oh by the way i dont have the original apple keyboard, im using an HP keyboard, if thats a problem, although it shouldnt be cuz i can do single user mode
i burned it i think, and if i open it theres just a bunch of files like welcome to tiger,read before you install, install mac os x, xcode tools, optional installs, applications, library, system, etc
Sounds like it's there, but why it's not seeing it in Boot Manager with the Option/alt key is a mystery... other than the OS doesn't think it's a bootable Disc.
Could this be from a Machine specific Gray Disc like for an IntelMac?
Can you open the Readme file & see if it says any useful info?
You could use it's Optical drive as a big expensive FW Optical drive by putting the Install Disc in it's drive, boot IT into FireWire target disk mode...