IMac Firmware update - ERROR

Hello all,
I'm trying to update the firmware on my Core Duo 2Ghz iMac but it dosen't work. I follow the instructions, holding the power button until the power light starts flashing, I hear the long beep, and immediately after that the startup chime. After a few seconds it goes to the gray screen, apple logo and it boot's normally. No progress indicator, no firmware update. Any suggestions?
Thank you!
iMac 2Ghz, 2GB Ram Mac OS X (10.4.6)

Did either of you try to install the onmac XP dual
booting solution? If so, you have to completely
reformat your drive. If you plan on trying the
bootcamp solution, when you partition it, make only 1
partition, otherwise bootcamp will not work.
Glor
Fortunately that is simply not true Glor... I put the onmac.net XP dual boot solution on my iMac and I got around it by booting to a Firewire Hardrive that had 10.4.6 and applying the firmware update from there.
If you have partitioned your hard drive this firmware might fail .. while it does not say so from my experience with other Apple firmware updaters it usually writes a firmware file to the HD and then when the computer is booted holding down the "programmers" button as they used to call it - the open firmware would look on the first partition of the first hard drive ( the default place for the OS) and read the firmware file from there.
In the case of having re-partitioned your drive - such as installing the XP solution - or other reasons this firmware would fail...
Again there are other ways than erasing your computer to fix this though such as the firewire boot device I described above.
good luck.

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