On Feb 19, 2009, at 4:57 PM, R. A. Cantrell wrote:
> Well, now I've gone and done it. I'm trying to fix up a Bondi iMac > for a neighbor kid, and it worked just fine till I fixed it. I > could not remember to password I had for the admin account, so I > just hit it in the head with HD SPeed Tools, thinking that I would > then load up a new install of 9.1. Well, now it will not mount any > OS from a CD. I've tried the HDST disk again, a generic 9.1 disk, > Disk Warrior, and an Apple Hardware test disk. the only one that > made any progress was the AHT disk, which started to load, but hung > at "This Machine Does not support AHT." If I boot and zap p-ram, I > get to the Happy Face wanting an OS, but then it will not pick up > any of the CD boot volumes and goes from there to an image of a > floppy flashing the "?". Any light out there? > > -- > All the best, > > R.A. Cantrell Have you tried --- Booting in 'Target' mode (via Firewire), and installing from the other machine? Chuck D. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
