Power Mac G4 no boot device found
I have a Power Mac G4.
When I power it on, it goes to a screen with the "Broken Folder that blinks - no bootable device has been found" ----- per the symbols reference ----- http://support.apple.com/en-us/HT2674
Need to know if I should be able to boot the MAC with a DVD boot disk from an iMac. I have an iMac 10.6.2 OS disk, and an associated "applications disk"... shouldn't one of these 2 disks show up as bootable devices?
Is there any truth in that, the onboard battery on the Desktop motherboard, if dead, may keep the G4 from posting, or otherwise?
Is there a "BIOS" of some sort that can be accessed on the MAC machine; Power Mac G4...?
When I try to boot w/either disk, the OS disk, pressing "Options" during POST, of the Applications disk by pressing "D", I get the 2 icons on the display, on the left, a circular arrow for retry/search again, and on the right, a R-Arrow for listing boot devices, which lists nothing.
I have a Power Mac G4, it will not boot to the HDD's in the machine. I have not seen this machine boot before; the person who gave it to me years ago may have 'wiped' the HDD(s).
When I power it on, it goes to a screen with the "Broken Folder that blinks - no bootable device has been found" ----- per the symbols reference ----- http://support.apple.com/en-us/HT2674
Need to know if I should be able to boot the MAC with a DVD boot disk from an iMac. I have an iMac 10.6.2 OS disk, and an associated "applications disk"... shouldn't one of these 2 disks show up as bootable devices?
Is there any truth in that, the onboard battery on the Desktop motherboard, if dead, may keep the G4 from posting, or otherwise?
Is there a "BIOS" of some sort that can be accessed on the MAC machine; Power Mac G4...?
When I try to boot w/either disk, the OS disk, pressing "Options" during POST, of the Applications disk by pressing "D", I get the 2 icons on the display, on the left, a circular arrow for retry/search again, and on the right, a R-Arrow for listing boot devices, which lists nothing.
I have a Power Mac G4, it will not boot to the HDD's in the machine. I have not seen this machine boot before; the person who gave it to me years ago may have 'wiped' the HDD(s).
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Dave Baldwin
I think I had to replace the battery in my G3 twice over the years to get it to boot.
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You can boot OSX 10.5 "Tiger" install DVD
or
Debian Linux, Ubuntu Linux, Gentoo Linux, well you get the idea, something like lxde should run on it.
or
Debian Linux, Ubuntu Linux, Gentoo Linux, well you get the idea, something like lxde should run on it.
10.5 is Leopard. 10.4 is Tiger.
Either....
10.5 was never shipped with machines and is last PowerPC release.
Most notably it requires G4 processor and blazing 1GB of RAM that most computers of time could just dream of.
Clapping C when chime plays should boot a CD
Like one recorded from:
http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/7.7.0/powerpc/bt-cd/ LXDE.
10.5 was never shipped with machines and is last PowerPC release.
Most notably it requires G4 processor and blazing 1GB of RAM that most computers of time could just dream of.
Clapping C when chime plays should boot a CD
Like one recorded from:
http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/7.7.0/powerpc/bt-cd/ LXDE.
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Accepted answer: 250 points for strung's comment #a40530095
Assisted answer: 125 points for DaveBaldwin's comment #a40529912
Assisted answer: 125 points for DaveBaldwin's comment #a40529911
for the following reason:
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I said to boot the CD :(