My iMac Died!

My iMac G3 266 is dead. When I turn it on, all I get is a screen full of scrolling text that reminds me of a Red Hat "Kernel Panic" message. I tried holding down "C" to boot it from a CD and it does nothing. I took the battery out, I tried resetting the PMU, I've tried everything suggested for other issues and still, when I turn it on, all I get is that message "Default catch, code=300 at %SRR0 ff00#### %SRR1 0000b030"
It just scrolls and scrolls - the only change is where I denoted #### - that keeps changing.
Any ideas?

Looks like you need to turn you cd into a Frisbee :-;.
EvilSupahFly wrote:
Well, I created an 8 GB partition at the start of the drive,
If you harddrive is greater than 8gig, you need to make the first partition 7.9. Tray loading machines can only boot from the first 8gigs of the drive. MacOS creates hidden partition before the first visible partition. ( Well, the machine will probably boot but your asking for trouble. )
and now I can mount the drive with the blank partitions
This is progress. How did you do this? I though you couldn't read the cd?
but I think my keyboard is toast now because the iMac won't boot if the mouse is plugged into the keyboard, only the second slot on the side, and when I try to attach my USB drive to the keyboard's USB slots, it says there isn't enough power
Could you try some other usb keyboard. Any will work.
http://www.macwindows.com/keyboard.html
That's likely because the usb port on the keyboard is low power. Should power a mouse though.
and if I unplug the mouse and plug the drive in there instead, it says it's unreadble and wants to format it.
What OS are you running? I wouldn't think you would get a message if there wasn't an os. Seems like the earlier message you got on your internal harddrive.
And I can't install OS 8 - it doesn't read the CD, and if I put in the OS 9 CD it says I have to do a firmware update before I can install, but there's no System on the HD yet.
Weren't you reading this cd before? Can you verify that the cd is good by putting it in another machine? I'm not sure that Windows can read these cd's but you can try both 8 & 9 and see.
The original machine came with installation & restore cds. You can copy an classic system folder to a harddrive then bless it then boot.
While you cannot boot from an external usb device, you can install onto an external harddrive then move it to internal. You may be able to try loading with an external cd drive.
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