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prob with NEW refurb iMac, setting up for dad.
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Hi, I just unpacked my dad's G5 iMac1.8 refurb and it boots to command line then OSX, which auto launches some system tests. I take it this as an accident on apples part.
I went to simply reinstall OSX that it came with but it still boots and lists command line stuff, then boots the cd but when I go to install I only get an option of "MaxDisk" which is onlu 12.0 GB. The main HD is not listed.
How do I get this thing going? Any help is appreciated!
thanks.
(Last edited by iamnotmad; Nov 20, 2005 at 04:53 PM.
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OK, I got it booted to OSX and killed to diagnostic stuff before it got a chance to take over. I see the HD is there in Disk Util. With 3 partitions - "disk0s3", "MaxDisk" (the only one not grayed out) and "disk0s5". How can I just remopve these and format this thing?
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ok, I got it - Nice that thye have disk util avail from the osx boot install disk. That allowed me to format the drive since I was not booted off of it.
installing clean now...
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It sounds like it came from an Apple retail store. They use partitions.
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ugh after install (first disc) it still booted while displaying a bunch of command line stuff - is that the stuff that happens anyway, but something is set so that it shows it at bootup? how do I get rid of it?
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You might need to reset your Open Firmware settings.
1. Shut down the computer
2. Start computer up holding down Command + Option + O + F
3. A screen comes up with a command prompt
4. At the prompt type in "reset-nvram" (without the quotes) and hit the return key
5. At the prompt type "reset-all" (without the quotes) and hit the return key. The machine will reboot
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that did it - thank you chabig! Got him all updated too.
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nice kid - Dad'll love it 
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