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Bondi iMac starts from CD but not HD
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Join Date: Aug 2000
Location: The Prairie State
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After replacing the analog board on a iMac/233/4GB/256 on my own  , the iMac will not boot from the hard drive, it will boot from OS 9 & OS X CDs.
Prior to the replacement of the analog board the iMac booted from both OS 9 and OS X with no problems
I have tried installing OS 8, OS 9 & OS X, the installs complete fine, but when restarted with no CD, the flashing ? startup folder appears, inserting any bootable CD enables the iMac to boot up.
OS 9 system folder appears "blessed", I have re-blessed them anyway, running a firmware updater gives me a "firmware is up to date " message.
I have reformatted the HD, I have rebuilt the desktop, zapped the PRAM, reset the NV-RAM and PRAM from Open Firmware.
I have switched to different HDs, set the jumpers to master, left the jumper off.
No change. 
I partitioned the HD into two 2GB partitions, put OS 9 on one & OS X on the other, holding down the option key at startup did not give me the option to select the startup partition only the flashing ? startup folder screen.
Any ideas? 
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Join Date: Oct 2001
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Originally posted by scooterkool:
After replacing the analog board on a iMac/233/4GB/256 on my own , the iMac will not boot from the hard drive, it will boot from OS 9 & OS X CDs.
Prior to the replacement of the analog board the iMac booted from both OS 9 and OS X with no problems
I have tried installing OS 8, OS 9 & OS X, the installs complete fine, but when restarted with no CD, the flashing ? startup folder appears, inserting any bootable CD enables the iMac to boot up.
OS 9 system folder appears "blessed", I have re-blessed them anyway, running a firmware updater gives me a "firmware is up to date " message.
I have reformatted the HD, I have rebuilt the desktop, zapped the PRAM, reset the NV-RAM and PRAM from Open Firmware.
I have switched to different HDs, set the jumpers to master, left the jumper off.
No change.
I partitioned the HD into two 2GB partitions, put OS 9 on one & OS X on the other, holding down the option key at startup did not give me the option to select the startup partition only the flashing ? startup folder screen.
Any ideas?
you will get more feedback on this in the iMac forum.
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Apr 2002
Location: Here and there
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