Not able to boot anything...
I just picked up an eMac 1GHz off the street (strangely enough, all 4 of the Macs I have/had have been found waiting to be thrown away). Physically in good shape but when I plugged it in to boot it up, I got a flashing question mark/Finder icon that I'm sure is not from OS X. (image here: http://img31.imageshack.us/my.php?image=downloady.jpg the eMac was upside down on my bed so the photo is the wrong way...sorry )
I tried booting from Jaguar and Panther CD's that I have and tested them on my iMac G3 (working fine there). It seems, however, that the superdrive on the eMac doesn't want to do anything. I can eject the drive from OpenFirmware but doesn't sound like it's spinning up at all, and doesn't boot holding the C key or typing in commands in OF.
I have read about target disk mode and I suppose it will help me in some way, though first I need to get a 6pin-6pin 1394 cable. What exactly can I do with it, can I use the iMac's working drive to install Panther on the eMac? That would be ideal as I don't have Tiger but would like to at least be able to use Firefox 3. Or can I install Jaguar on the iMac to the eMac's drive? (side note: iMac's previous owner upgraded to 10.2 w/o upgrading firmware, so I'm stuck with it)
I'd like to be able to repair the current install if possible, otherwise using the target disk mode seems like the only other thing to do. I've zapped the PRAM, removed ram/battery etc. nothing helped as I expected.
I look forward to your replies!
Hey, I got the firewire cable and I was able to successfully boot the iMac's Jaguar install on the eMac (runs fantastically on the G4 compared to the G3 ) and I also put the eMac in firewire mode and installed to the eMac's hard drive; the eMac's hard drive was previously empty but now I can see all of the system files but still it won't boot even if I select it from the Startup Disk preferences.
I tried running some command form Open Firmware (boot hd:,\\:tbxi) on the eMac and now it says "Parsing CHRP-BOOT - Bootinfo is not compatible". That's better than before where it would say "can't OPEN: hd:,\\:tbxi" but perhaps I need some other command. I've tried reset-nvram and reset-all, nothing.
the eMac's superdrive will not respond to any discs that I place in it. I guess it's busted.
I'll try using the iMac's CD drive to install on the eMac (I'd love panther or tiger), how do I do that? Any special method? Thank you for the reply!
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