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ibook G3, won't startup
Name: moxi Date: March 12, 2004 at 15:20:42 Pacific OS: OS 9 CPU/Ram: 192 RAM
Comment:
I want to reinstall my computer, i want to erase the disk but the computer won't boot from the CD, i tried with OS 7.5.5 ; 8.0 ; 8.6 ; 9.0 None of them work, at the startup it reads from the CD but after that it boots from the HD.
Name: kace Date: March 22, 2004 at 12:52:20 Pacific
Reply:
Did you change the startup disk in the control panel after you booted from the hard drive and the CD installed? Did you try to boot while pressing the D key? Can you access the CD-ROM after the boot from the hard drive? If yes can you just perform an MacOS install procedure?
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Response Number 2
Name: Rxke Date: March 24, 2004 at 00:21:04 Pacific
Reply:
Had exactly the same problem, i have a mass of official disks lying around, but none of them boots. Turns out you *do* have to use the original iBook disks, sigh...
BUT... what *did* work was OSX.2 startupdisks, surprize! I did an osX install, for i thought most of my files were dead anyway, but second surprize: after the install my old files were untouched! And osx is faster than i thought on the ol' iBook...
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