Summary: Is there a way to boot Mac OS on a floppy disk without mounting the HD?? My HD's driver is corrupt and cant even boot a boot disk cause the HD will n...
Summary: Pickle/Wayne- (1) Yes - I've always powered off between swaps. (2) Yes - I knew about OS X needing to be in the first 8 GB (and I partitioned that way...
Summary: Since today our iMac has suddenly stopped booting.. It's been a while since we used the keyboard on it due the dog eating through the USB cord.. (been...
Summary: Well, it depends. If the disk is actually daaged, you may need to reformat.. But if the files are just corrupted (i.e. The System Files) you can us...
Summary: Got a Mac G4 dual processor with 896+ RAM. Got one internal HD and one external 80 GB HD. Had situation few months ago where my main HD (internal) had...
Summary: Bob is almost right. The active system cannot be copied while in use. Boot from a startup CD and then you can copy it fully. CAVEAT: It's not good to ...
Summary: if the date is set back, the battery needs to be replaced, as for the operating system, try booting without extensions(shift key) may also need boot f...
Summary: Hey Guys! It's me again, I've tried a couple of things, reset HD cable, tried a different power cable of the HD, I've tried to boot without extensions...
Summary: Hi all, Still got problems installing yellowdog linux on Blue & White 300 mhz mac G3 My system has a 6G harddisk, ATI 120 videocard and 64 mb intern...
Summary: Hello, I have a powerbook g4 (17-inch) that wont boot from a cd or from the hard drive. os x 10.1 is on the hard drive, wont boot from any install cd...
Summary: Yes, the OS CD should boot without drivers installed on the HD. The OS on the CD has mostly-universal drivers built into it. There are a few CD driv...
Summary: This one really has me in a bind...I've always had trouble getting my Beige G3 to boot once i started messing with OS X. I've done countless PRAM rese...
Summary: I was going to atempt to install YeloowDogLinux, I decided not to and could not get out of the menu system so I shut it down. Now the Mac will not bo...
Summary: While running some memory intensive applications for biological sequence analysis plus simple text to view a screen shot my G4-450 froze the app, t...
Summary: Okay ... I'm going to provide a slew of info here since this scenario is a little different than most. MAC = Dual Mirror G4 1.25ghz w/1.5 Gs DDR 2700 ...
Summary: I have a 9600/200 and I had istalled the Yellow Dog Linux 2. I wrote the MACOS command in terminal and it restarted. After this no image appeared on m...
Summary: A friend of mine decided to instal Windows XP on his Apple iMac computer using Boot Camp. He created a partition and installed XP on that seperate par...
Summary: Hmm ... try booting without extentions (holding down SHIFT at startup.) It might not like whatever refresh rate the computer is giving it. ----pax...
Summary: JesusPeace, My first hunch was simliar to what Pyran mentioned. I have an iMac DV/SE that will sometimes not boot because of a problem device on a U...
Summary: Boot with the extensions off immediately after using TechTool to rebuild the desktop, or boot without extensions but also whilst holding cmd-opt. I t...
Summary: my apple/mac 7600 won't turn on at all. You press the power button and the fan turns on for about 3 seconds and you can hear the hard drive start to ...
Summary: I have a power mac 8500/120 that recently stopped booting. It boots as far as the smiley face and wont go any further. The interesting thing is w...
Summary: Well, I'd try it on the end of the SCSI cable and have a look at the termination issue. If I'm not stating the obvious, unscrew the drive from the pla...
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