On Aug 10, 2004, at 11:30 pm, Kevin Willis wrote:
I just picked up a "Flower Power" iMac 500 from a auction. It had everything but a hard drive. I installed a WD 40 GB HD and am trying to install OS 9.1 from a bootable CD. For some reason, the computer doesn't seem to want to boot from the CD.
Instead of pressing the 'C' key at boot time as Apple suggest try holding Command-Option-Shift-Delete. It's a grand old key combo that dates way back to the early days of SCSI Macs but it works on my B&W where as 'C' fails to on most occasions. Of course if the hard drive has no OS on it anyway it should default to loading from the CD drive, but I've had occasions where the lack of OS, or the format (or lack thereof) of the hard disk has confuzzled the machine.
I have tried every pin combination on the HD that there is. To be honest, I am not even sure if the CD drive is IDE or SCSI. There is no power cable attached to it, and the cable that connects to it has 50 pins. Is there a secret to getting one of these things to boot and install?
The CD Drive is IDE and is likely hardwired to 'Slave'. The hard drive should be set to 'Master'... AFAIK.
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