Stuck on windows vista...

[.:Cosmo:.]

So I start up my iMac (late '07 alu) and I get greeted by a stop symbol and automatically get logged onto windows vista😕 Any ideas of what's going on?

Thanks

 

[xUKHCx]

Have you tried pressing option on boot to get to the selector screen?

If you just want to restore it so it defaults boots into OS X press cmd+option+p+r on boot this will clear your PRAM (when the default boot option is stored).

Or if you are in windows then you can get the boot camp system tray item up and select to boot into OS X this will hopefully kick it into going to OS X.

 

[.:Cosmo:.]

Ive tried pressing option but it won't work, ill try the other suggestion now.

Thanks

 

[.:Cosmo:.]

Nope didnt work 😕

Its the same symbol as I get on this page http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1892

 

[deltaiscain]

did you try all the other option on the page?

 

[tibi08]

Hold the "X" key during startup

 

[tMac85]

you must hold the option key before the apple chimes. if you hold it any later it will not give you the hard drive options.

when you get to the mac side, you need to go to your settings and go to start up disk and choose mackintosh.
now that i think about it, this may not be your problem, but just throwing it out there.

 

[spinnerlys]

If you are in Vista, there is a BootCamp icon on the right side of the taskbar.
It gives you the option to choose the startup disk too.

 

[.:Cosmo:.]

That wasn't the problem, it turns out I needed to reinstall the OS, thanks anyway 😛