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acearchie

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Jan 15, 2006
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Ok my friends were messing around with my computer and set it to boot from a disk image I had open. This closed as the computer was restarting and therefore it had nothing to boot from.

Now I have a blank screen with some text saying insert a booatable disk and press any key...

I dont have my leopard disk but I have a Linux Mint disk which when inserted boots into a beginning menu but wont actually boot into Linux...

But I have the option to boot from a hardrive and I can write in the file path...

Anyone know the file path to boot up leopard from the harddrive?

Im on a 2 month old macbook!

Thanks!
 

xUKHCx

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Jan 15, 2006
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The Kop
You could zap the PRAM as that stores the boot choice and it should revert to the internal drive.

cmd+opt+p+r

Or you could try entering

/dev/disk0 or just disk0 or just /
 

acearchie

macrumors 68040
Original poster
Jan 15, 2006
3,264
104
You could zap the PRAM as that stores the boot choice and it should revert to the internal drive.

cmd+opt+p+r

Or you could try entering

/dev/disk0 or just disk0 or just /


Oh My God!

You are a complete lifesaver! Ha Thank you so much!

Dont know how to repay you, I have reset the pram on my ibook g4 before but when your actually in a crisis you forget about those things!

THanks again!
 

xUKHCx

Administrator emeritus
Jan 15, 2006
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The Kop
Well we could come up with an arrangement ;)

Seriously i'm glad you got it sorted and I could help.
 
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