cruiserd Posted January 6, 2006 Share Posted January 6, 2006 HELP! I'm using one of the stock x86 developer machines and for some reason it won't boot now. I've tried booting from the command line in safe mode but that doesn't work either. I'm not a hardware guy and really no good with darwin... Right now the machine will go to the gray screen with the Apple but it eventually ends up stuck in an endless cycle with the blue screen and rotating 'flower'. I want to start up from the install DVD, but I have no way to eject the CD tray in this G5 tower. My goal is to eject the CD tray (how do I do this after starting up and hitting F8?) and then restart from the 8F1099 install DVD so I can reinstall a clean OS. Any help is greatly appreciated. I'm losing valuable dev time. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/6475-developer-kit-machine-wont-boot/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
plasm Posted January 6, 2006 Share Posted January 6, 2006 (edited) Well, I don't know much about the G5 case, but on most macs (or at least on the older ones) there is a tiny dot, and if you unwind a paperclip and press it, it ejects the tray. Also, I think holding down the mouse while the computer is booting will eject it, it worked on my old iMac G3. Good luck! Edited January 6, 2006 by plasm Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/6475-developer-kit-machine-wont-boot/#findComment-40266 Share on other sites More sharing options...
theagent Posted January 6, 2006 Share Posted January 6, 2006 Hold down the mouse button during the boot process... it will eventually eject the CD tray Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/6475-developer-kit-machine-wont-boot/#findComment-40278 Share on other sites More sharing options...
sigxcpu Posted January 6, 2006 Share Posted January 6, 2006 LOL. So, dev machines are not so rock solid? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/6475-developer-kit-machine-wont-boot/#findComment-40292 Share on other sites More sharing options...
macgirl Posted January 7, 2006 Share Posted January 7, 2006 rotating 'flower'. Little off topic but it is called the "Beach Ball", and some called the "Beach Ball Of Death" or BBOD Try hitting F8 at boot, then type -v to see "verbose" all the messages it display. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/6475-developer-kit-machine-wont-boot/#findComment-40307 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ouch Posted January 7, 2006 Share Posted January 7, 2006 I've always called it the colour wheel. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/6475-developer-kit-machine-wont-boot/#findComment-40310 Share on other sites More sharing options...
cruiserd Posted January 7, 2006 Author Share Posted January 7, 2006 None of the above work. The only reaction I can get out of the machine during startup is the F8 boot prompt. Holding the mouse button, or the spacebar on the keyboard... none of the traditional methods for ejecting the tray work. Also, to further clarify, the rotating flower is not the BBOD I'm refering to. It's the blue startup screen with the rotating progress indicator. Is there a sequence to eject the CD tray from the root user command line? So far, I can start it up in Single user mode, but I don't really know where to go from there. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/6475-developer-kit-machine-wont-boot/#findComment-40423 Share on other sites More sharing options...
macgirl Posted January 8, 2006 Share Posted January 8, 2006 Sure, just type "diskutil eject" or "diskutil eject force", also "disktool -e disk2" if the CD is disk2 of course. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/6475-developer-kit-machine-wont-boot/#findComment-40574 Share on other sites More sharing options...
fireshark Posted January 8, 2006 Share Posted January 8, 2006 I think it would be disk1s1 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/6475-developer-kit-machine-wont-boot/#findComment-40606 Share on other sites More sharing options...
macgirl Posted January 9, 2006 Share Posted January 9, 2006 When you eject the a CD is the whole disk not just a partition/session, could be disk1 yes disk2 is an example if you had other disks. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/6475-developer-kit-machine-wont-boot/#findComment-40711 Share on other sites More sharing options...
sigxcpu Posted January 9, 2006 Share Posted January 9, 2006 macgirl: you are too serious. let the man eject whatever part of the disk he wants Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/6475-developer-kit-machine-wont-boot/#findComment-40717 Share on other sites More sharing options...
cruiserd Posted January 10, 2006 Author Share Posted January 10, 2006 Thanks all for the help. Finally got it with "drutil eject tray". What a nightmare. At least I'm back to a friendly GUI ;-) For all of you command line folks: Keep doing what you're doing, cause the rest of us need you! Thanks again. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/6475-developer-kit-machine-wont-boot/#findComment-40846 Share on other sites More sharing options...
macgirl Posted January 10, 2006 Share Posted January 10, 2006 Glad to know it worked Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/6475-developer-kit-machine-wont-boot/#findComment-40916 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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