Q: iMac G3 Boot problems?
Hello, everyone. Sorry if the amount of detail incorporated into this post turns out to be rather dull, I just woke up. Anyways, I recently bought an iMac G3 (specs below)off craigslist. It works fine, but I made a mistake recently.
700 MHz
1gb ram
80 gb hdd
slot loading cd drive (burns / reads cds)
It came with 10.4.11, and it also had a mac os 9 system folder. The last time I had a mac, and I put os 9 on it with a system folder, I recall booting into os 9 without problems. However, I set the boot disk to the system folder, and now I am stuck at a floppy disk with a blinking question mark. I have not been able to find a way to get back into os x, and any attempts to boot from a cd from open firmware have returned the following error:
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boot cd method <load> not found; ihandle=0 phandle=0 adler32=1
LOAD-SIZE is too small
ok
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If I boot from either xubuntu 6.06, or the first disc in the Tiger installation series, it will do this. Same with the OS9 cd.
Any help?
If you'd like more detail, please ask.
700 MHz
1gb ram
80 gb hdd
slot loading cd drive (burns / reads cds)
It came with 10.4.11, and it also had a mac os 9 system folder. The last time I had a mac, and I put os 9 on it with a system folder, I recall booting into os 9 without problems. However, I set the boot disk to the system folder, and now I am stuck at a floppy disk with a blinking question mark. I have not been able to find a way to get back into os x, and any attempts to boot from a cd from open firmware have returned the following error:
---------------------------------------------------------------
boot cd method <load> not found; ihandle=0 phandle=0 adler32=1
LOAD-SIZE is too small
ok
---------------------------------------------------------------
If I boot from either xubuntu 6.06, or the first disc in the Tiger installation series, it will do this. Same with the OS9 cd.
Any help?
If you'd like more detail, please ask.
iMac G3, Mac OS X (10.4.11)
Posted on Jan 27, 2011 3:43 AM