Not a bootable device
Hi all, i'm a newbie to the mac world and need somm help if you please.i found this old G3 at the ASU surplus wharehouse and picked it up for a dollar and figured the cd-rom and zip drive were worth that. when i got home i found it had 320gb's of ram and a 6gb hdd. so i just figured it's project time. i installed OS X 10.0 then upgraded to 10.0.1 .(and all was well), until i tried to restart it. when it was trying to restart the hdd sounded like it was reveing up then dieing down ( up&down up&down ).so found an old 15gb hdd i had laying around and figured it looked like a good canidate. 'anyway' install went well using OS 9.2.2 . trying to upgrade to the 10.0 was disapointing. when update says to restart, the computer wont reboot, i tried using expostfacto and it says my hdd ia an unbootable device, but if i just shut the computer down it will i can restart using the power button.
also can anyone tell me where to find firmware updates for the beige powermac g3 266mhz.
thanks, i'll appreciate any and all help.
Power Macintosh G3 ( Beige ) Mac OS 9.2.x 15GB HDD, 320MB Ram
dogtag68:also can anyone tell me where to find firmware updates for the beige powermac g3 266mhz.Let's start with your last question first. There is no firmware for the Beige G3.my hdd ia an unbootable deviceFor a newbie I guess you have undertaken quite a project. Let's start at the beginning. First of all your HDD needs to be formatted Mac HFS+ (Mac OS Extended). Here are directions to format and install OS 9.
1. Boot from your OS 9 install CD holding down C key.
2. Go to Drive Setup and reformat your drive as Mac OS Extended (HFS+)
2. Reinstall OS 9
3. Update to 9.2.2: Mac OS 9: Available Updates
You should now have a bootable drive. If everything has gone well so far we go to installing OS X.
5. Boot from the 10.0.x install CD 1
6. Go to Installer Menu and open Disk Utility
7. Repair Permissions!
8. Install Mac OS X 10.0.x
9. Restart and Repair permissions (Applications > Utilities > Disk Utility)!
10. Download and apply the Mac OS X Update 10.0.1 (Combo)
11. Restart and Repair permissions!
12. Run Software Update and apply all updates available
Note: The Beige G3 will support OS X 10.2.8 natively and can support Panther and Tiger with the help of XPostFacto. However, first you need to get it running.
Hope this is helpful.
Good luck.
cornelius
PismoG4 550, 100GB 5400 Toshiba internal, 1 GB RAM; Pismo 500 OS (10.4.4) Mac OS X (10.4.5) Beige G3 OS 8.6
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CoreStorage logical volume groups (1 found)
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+-- Logical Volume Group 63DC419F-1A09-4C5B-977A-F59F79502CA1
=========================================================
Name: FusionDrive
Size: 888087773184 B (888.1 GB)
Free Space: 0 B (0 B)
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Password:
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+-- Logical Volume Group A8C00490-0E14-401F-AB69-59F37724E8C4
=========================================================
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Free Space: 0 B (0 B)
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+-< Physical Volume 4772013B-5520-4801-9BE5-BCAEF4AEDAB3
| ----------------------------------------------------
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+-< Physical Volume A679A101-3C78-4A59-B5EE-A4339210CFAD
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Bootcamp will not load Windows installer - No bootable device, insert disk then press any key
Hello, I recently decided to install bootcamp onto my 2009 27" iMac, I have done this before for other people's computers and I thought it would be no different for my own. However, on attempt to install the Windows disk, instead of starting the installer it only gives me an error message saying No bootable device, insert boot disk then press any key. I have tried ejecting the disk and then putting it back into my disk driver but it still seems to give me the same error. I went back into my Mac using Alt(option) key on startup and then set the startup disk as the Windows installer disk but it doesn't seem to make a difference. I also tried booting the disk directly from the startup disk menu is the alt(option) key on startup but that didn't do anything different either.
Suggestions would be greatly appreciated!
Also if it helps my computer is a
2009 27" iMac running OSX 10.8.4
And my disk drive is an external drive because my internal SuperDrive went out.That last point is your problem, Boot Camp doesn't really like booting from external drives.
You will have to do the following (assuming Boot Camp already partitioned your hard disk):
1. Use Disk Utility to make a CD/DVD Master of the Windows Install Disc.
2. Rename the resulting *.cdr file so it has an *.iso extension.
3. Insert a USB Flash Drive (8GB or more) into a USB port and start Boot Camp Assistant.
4. Make sure only "Create a Windows 7 or later version install disk" is checked.
5. Follow the directions, selecting the USB Flash Drive as the destination, and the *.iso as the source.
You should now be able to boot from and install Windows from the USB Flash Drive. It's annoying, but I had to do that.
You will need a second flash drive of 1GB or more, or 700MB or more extra space on the install disk to place the boot camp support files, which will need to be installed. -
I previously had Windows 7 on my Mac, but removed it after returning from deployment because it had a virus that I could not remove. The only way to remove was to insert a CD/DVD with the anti-virus on, but in my absence, the optical drive was not cleaned and did not work. I had only been using partition for college, so I removed it.
Now, six months later I am trying to re-instal Windows, but after creating the partition and inserting the disk into the external Superdrive, when Bootcamp reboots I get "No bootable device -- insert boot disk and press any key". Nothing happens, I can't even type on the screen. I can reboot to Mac via the alt-option key fine, and I can see the drives, the Windows CD, etcetera, but nothing works. When I go back to Mac, Bootcamp won't work unless I delete the partition over from scratch, but I'm getting the same result.
Is the computer looking for the internal optical drive (which doesn't work, and can only be repaired by sending the whole thing back to Apple)? Is there a way to default to the external optical drive?
Thanks.Bob, thanks. I misread the PDF (font on phones is difficult to see). Got it fixed now.
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