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Trying to get a orginal (bondi) iMac to boot..

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Horatio™

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Dec 9, 2005
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Hello all, first sorry if this is in the wrong forum, but this is the closest I could see to vintage troubleshooting. I have an original bondi blue iMac that starts off the CD perfectly, but refuses to boot of the HD, it just sits there flashing a system icon/question mark. Now here's where it gets odd... If I stick the CD in and let it run long enough so that it stops flashing a question mark, and has a solid sys icon and then kick the CD out, it immediatly boots off the HD, no problem... I've tried just about everything I can think of, and alot of what other people have thought of... (http://www.macaddict.com/forums/topic/73994) but to no avail... any ideas? :confused:
 
Horatio&#8482 said:
Hello all, first sorry if this is in the wrong forum, but this is the closest I could see to vintage troubleshooting. I have an original bondi blue iMac that starts off the CD perfectly, but refuses to boot of the HD, it just sits there flashing a system icon/question mark. Now here's where it gets odd... If I stick the CD in and let it run long enough so that it stops flashing a question mark, and has a solid sys icon and then kick the CD out, it immediatly boots off the HD, no problem... I've tried just about everything I can think of, and alot of what other people have thought of... (http://www.macaddict.com/forums/topic/73994) but to no avail... any ideas? :confused:
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The system may have the Default startup disk set incorrectly. But it should still boot (after a delay) from your HDD.

Try this,
Once you are in the OS, check to see what the default "Startup disk" is set to.

Is this OS 9 or OS X ?

Either way startup disk is going to be located in the Control panels, or System preferences.
 
I'll check that out right now, and I'm running OS 8.6 (figured thats what they shipped with (er.. shipped with 8.5 actually) so why not give it a shot), though I've had considerable experience with both.
 
Well it seems something has gone nutty... now I can't do anything except boot off of the CD :(
 
Horatio&#8482 said:
Well it seems something has gone nutty... now I can't do anything except boot off of the CD :(
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It may be time to reload the OS.

Do you see a "Blessed" System folder when you boot from the CD? .

This will be a System folder with the Smiling Macintosh logo, and inside that, you should also see a finder icon with the smiling Macintosh logo.
 
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