Hi,
I have an old eMac that's been running for a while. The other day when I tried to turn it on, I got to a blue screen and it just hung there. I was able to boot into safe-mode to backup my data. But I haven't been able to boot-up from the cd or anything to re-install the OS - it always hang at the blue screen.
So...i tried to reinstall the OS through firewire, wiped the hard drive, tried to install, only to get an error that I couldn't install OS X (leopard) on that hard drive. The console log says that it couldn't "Create a bootable partition/drive..." or something like that. I was wondering if it had something to do with trying to install OS X on an Apple Partition Table from an Intel iMac (the eMac is a powerpc and the other firewired machine is an intel iMac).
But yeah it's been dead ever since...
Other things ive tried BEFORE i wiped the hard drive and tried a re-install:
-resetting PRAM
-single user mode and several commands I found on this forum & apple help
-safe mode (this worked)
-checked for login items/fonts/enhancements etc.. etc.. but nothing was present.
Anyone know what's going on? The only two thing I can think of right now is a hard drive failure or a logicboard failure/no power etc..
thanks in advance!
I have an old eMac that's been running for a while. The other day when I tried to turn it on, I got to a blue screen and it just hung there. I was able to boot into safe-mode to backup my data. But I haven't been able to boot-up from the cd or anything to re-install the OS - it always hang at the blue screen.
So...i tried to reinstall the OS through firewire, wiped the hard drive, tried to install, only to get an error that I couldn't install OS X (leopard) on that hard drive. The console log says that it couldn't "Create a bootable partition/drive..." or something like that. I was wondering if it had something to do with trying to install OS X on an Apple Partition Table from an Intel iMac (the eMac is a powerpc and the other firewired machine is an intel iMac).
But yeah it's been dead ever since...
Other things ive tried BEFORE i wiped the hard drive and tried a re-install:
-resetting PRAM
-single user mode and several commands I found on this forum & apple help
-safe mode (this worked)
-checked for login items/fonts/enhancements etc.. etc.. but nothing was present.
Anyone know what's going on? The only two thing I can think of right now is a hard drive failure or a logicboard failure/no power etc..
thanks in advance!