On Tue, 15 Apr 2008 10:19:48 -0700, isw <isw@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>In article <sij904pamrjldpmb3465trcr7843bdob07@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
> Atreju <someone@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>> I got a second-hand imac from a relative.
>> It's a CRT unit model M5521 500MHz yr 2000.
>> I cannot get OS to load. All I get after a while is a little Mac logo
>> folder that changes into a "?" and back intermittently. It stays as
>> the mac logo for a while sometimes, then resumes changing back and
>> forth.
>>
>> I have burned at least 3 versions of Mac OS to CD and tried booting up
>> onto them. I am using a PC keyboard, so I hold down ALT and I get the
>> boot device selection screen. However, NO choices appear. I hit the
>> refresh, and still no choices appear.
>>
>> I've tried with Mac OS 9.22, 9.04 and one more I'm not sure the exact
>> version (downloaded CD images).
>>
>> Now, this unit was given to the person who gave it to me, and he said
>> it had hardly been used.
>>
>> One last thing I should mention is the very first time I booted it up,
>> I got some message about something not working that I should bypass
>> extensions by holding down ****FT. I have done this already but it has
>> not changed anything.
>>
>> Any advice would be very much appreciated. My ideal preference would
>> be to get OS 10 on here. However, I read that you need to upgrade the
>> firmware prior to being able to install OS 10. The problem with that
>> is all the firmware update options from Apple are downloads that you
>> need to run ON the system, and since it is not running, I cannot do
>> that. I would need a CD-bootable update.
>>
>> I have considered writing the Tiger image straight to the hard drive
>> because I have a utility to do that... but I want to wait for advice
>> from ppl who are more experienced than I. I am a guru with PCs, but
>> I'm a Mac dummy.
>
>Simply copying a Mac system folder onto a CD will NOT result in a
>bootable copy; even making a disc copy of a bootable CD won't work.
>There's a special process to follow to make a CD bootable; google around
>for it.
>
Well, no I was not going to write the image to CD, I was going to
write the disk image straight onto a hard drive. This creates the
partition and writes the entire OS etc. It's a static image of a
working Mac installation on hard drive. It was constructed for people
to easily get OS X Tiger onto a PC hardware, but I was considering
trying it for this machine. I don't like that it is just a 6 GB
partition though, but I could worry about resizing that later (if
that's possible with Mac - I have no idea... it can be done with PC).
As for being a bootable CD, the ISO files I used for the few ones I
tried were images of entire CD from original OS installation discs,
therefore they should be bootable. If they were properly created.
>eBay may be able to supply you with a proper bootable disc at low cost,
>but be careful; some Apple-provided bootable CDs are model-specific.
>
>Isaac
Thanks, I also have the name of an Apple tech service company in the
city near me if I need to go to that measure.
TY
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