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Plz help. I screwed up the boot, powermac g4

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2poniorb

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Aug 24, 2013
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Northern Europe in the middle of nowhere
So I just bought an old powermac g4. When I first booted it, it had Tiger on it. But not knowing much about old macs it looked like it also had os9 on it cause I could choose to boot from a os9 folder. So without thinking I choosed to boot from it thinking it would boot into os9!
But nope. All I get now when I try to start it is a grey screen with a small floppy disk icon with a flashing question mark on it!

I have tried to boot holding down alt, but it only shows one hard drive.
Also, I don't have any mac os cd's to boot from!

Can anyone please help me with this? :confused:
 
Try zapping the PRAM by holding CMD, OPT (Alt), P, R at boot until you hear the chime a second time...

That may clear the settings.

:apple: Altemose :apple:
 
2poniorb said:
So I just bought an old powermac g4. When I first booted it, it had Tiger on it. But not knowing much about old macs it looked like it also had os9 on it cause I could choose to boot from a os9 folder. So without thinking I choosed to boot from it thinking it would boot into os9!
But nope. All I get now when I try to start it is a grey screen with a small floppy disk icon with a flashing question mark on it!

I have tried to boot holding down alt, but it only shows one hard drive.
Also, I don't have any mac os cd's to boot from!

Can anyone please help me with this? :confused:
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Hold down the X key on your keyboard when you are booting the computer. This will allow the computer to boot back into OS X.

Make sure to reset your boot device in the Startup Disk system preference.
 
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