Any cure for this yet?
Hi,
Have you found any cure for this yet?
I ask as I seem to have a similar problem.
Trying to install a new 80Gb Hitachi hard drive in an old Bondi Blue revA iMac, I find that the machine will not boot from the cd (or indeed at all) when the new drive is attached. I just get the flashing folder for a period of seconds, and eventually the cd drive spins down (the folder stops flashing and just sits there as a folder). Reinstalling the old 6Gb drive the machine boots fine with hd or cd. The new hard drive has the same effect on a Rev B (333MHz grape) iMac, so I am confident it is the drive at fault and not the cd drive. I assume it is a problem with the jumper settings, but so far as I can tell the drive is already set up as the Master (device 0), as it should be.
Peculiarly, I was able to boot from cd the first time after installing the 80 Gb drive. I partitioned the drive, but the installer refused to install onto the partition I had prepared for OS X. This was under the 8Gb limit (7.4 to be precise), but it was the second partition: I had stuck a small partition (a few megabytes only) in front of it. (If you need to know why, it was because I thought I might put Linux on a separate partition and had got it into my head I would need space for grub or lilo, something which I'm probably wrong about.) Anyway, when it refused to install I repartitioned to make the OS X partition the first one, but it still refused to partition, and when I rebooted I could no longer get the machine to start from cd.
Does anyone have any ideas? Why would the presence of this drive inactivate the cd drive? And why didn't it do so the first time it was installed?
Thanks,
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