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Disk Stcuk in Mac Mini (about to lose my ever loving mind)

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zenfleshzenbone

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Sep 25, 2007
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Memphis 10 My Friend
Hi everyone, I am in dire need of some Mac expertise here. I have a G4 Mac Mini a friend gave me cause it "didn't work". Put in a new HD (which it needed), upgraded to 1Gb of ram, slapped a windows keyboard and wireless mouse on it and its been running 10.4 fine. I popped in my Leopard disk to upgrade the software. Here's my issue:

1. Mini would not boot up into the installer. It got stuck at the grey apple screen. No biggie.

2. Tried to reboot and get my cd out, to no avail. I guess since I have a windows keyboard I cant use any of the startup key combos?? Tried holding the mouse, C, X, Option (alt), command (windows) + S etc.. everything I could think of. Nothing. Just the grey screen with the wheel.

3. For some reason it decided all the sudden to boot from the cd. I thought "SWEET! FINALLY" ..nope. Wont let me install. Fails. Says it cant read the disk and it may need to be cleaned, which it might. No option to eject. Just a reboot button.

4. Tried ejecting from the disk utility from the Leopard install disk, but it wont let me cause it's using the disk. Also tried a "drutil tray eject" from the command line on the disk. Nothing.

Do I really need to get an apple keyboard to do these key combos? I mean, Im planning on getting one, but it sucks that I cant use the one I have for the time being. What are my options here?
 
Just hold the power button and turn it off

This happend to me too I have a g4 mini as well Just hold the power button and turn it off and it will auto eject the disk. It took me a week to figure that out lol.

G:apple:
 
Just take your socks and shoes off and walk around barefoot.

Your lost mind will be the squishy thing you step in.
 
Okay thanks for the help.. but i finally got it. Here's what I did:

1. Held down the power button on boot up. That brought me to the open firmware screen.

2. typed "eject cd" then "mac-boot"

Finally.. after 3 days I have a functional desktop again. Just thought I would post this for anyone else who might have the same issue.
 
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