So I Have A Tray-Loading Rev. B IMac G3 That Won't Boot. I Replaced The Battery And Tried Reinstalling Mac OS 9.2.1 A Couple Of Times. I Still Have The Original Hard Drive Installed But It Seems To Work Fine. Mac OS 9.2.2 Was Installed On This Computer And It Worked Fine But Last Summer I Tried Installing Linux PPC 2000 And It Didn't Boot So I Tried Reinstalling Mac OS 9.2. Now It Doesn't Work
iMac, Mac OS 9.2.x, IMac G3 1998 Rev.B
OK, so the computer appears to boot from a CD but not from the built-in hard drive, is that correct? If so, has it been possible to, somehow, carry out a hard disk test/verification when starting up from a CD? Or does not anything work right now?
I assume that the battery was replaced recently. Have you tried a PRAM reset? Any further information about sounds or lights (power button colours)?
https://manuals.info.apple.com/MANUALS/0/MA496/en_US/iMacG3_originalEmergencyHnd bk.PDF
https://manuals.info.apple.com/MANUALS/0/MA492/en_US/iMacG3_originalInstallGuide .PDF
For a Linux distribution test, I suppose that the hard disk had been (re)partioned. Could that be part of the problem now? Have you since tried to reformat/reinitialise the hard drive to Mac OS Standard or Mac OS Extended only, using an appropriate version of the Drive Setup utility? Do you have access to an original Mac OS (8.5.x) system CD for this computer? If using a later system CD, it should be a retail version (not a machine-specific version for another Mac).
Please note that a reformatting/reinitialisation will erase everything on the hard disk, so make sure that you have backup copies of any important files before trying this.
I Have reformatted The Whole Drive to 1 Partition That is Mac OS Standard With The Drive utility That Came On The mac OS 9.2.1 Non Machine-Specific Installation CD. And I Do not Intend To Reinstall Linux
I've Already Reset The PRAM. It Boots Up With The Chime And Green Power Button But Keeps Blinking At Me Until I Put A Bootable CD In It. The Hard Disk Verification Test tells Me It's OK Even When Doing It Multiple Times. The Built-In Hard Drive Seems To Be The Problem.
This may or may not lead to a change:
Start up from a CD. When at the Desktop, can a hard disk icon be seen (below the CD icon)? If yes, double-click on the hard disk icon. In the open hard disk window, double-click on the System Folder. Locate the Control Panels folder in the open window. Double-click on the Control Panels folder. Open the Startup Disk control panel. Check that the appropriate icon has been selected (highlighted). Close all windows. Restart the computer.
If no change, you may want to try the "Re-bless the System Folder" procedure on page 16 in the Emergency Handbook (link above).
I Also Tried Reinstalling Mac OS 9.2.2 And That Also Didn't work!
>(re)partioned
Correction:
(re)partitioned
I Did The Startup Disk Thing, When It restarts The Screen Turns White And the Blinking Question Mark Returns. I Have Also Re-Blessed With No Results.
IMac G3 Won't Boot Up
