Mac os 8.6 cd mac os#

Does anyone know of a tool (on the CD, or on the internet) that would properly partition the hard drive with the required boot partition, or a way to do so from within the installer? So I need some help from some of the older Mac guys out there. I assume this is because the 'Disk Setup' tool does not know if the hard drive I'm partitioning will be used as a boot hard drive or not.

Mac os 8.6 cd mac os#

Using a few linux tools, as far as I can trace it the default installer and partition tool did not install the NewWorld boot partition that the Mac OS needs to boot. The only time I've seen this used in the past is when the hard drive could not be found.

I get the BIOS error of the flashing folder, question mark, and finder logo. The problem is that the system would not start up into the new system. The install went fine on the partition, and I rebooted when it was done. The CD booted fine (holding C at boot), and then using the attached partition tool on said CD, I initialized the hard drive. My first thought was to Install some old Linux distro or something, but most things I had read said to install the Mac OS if you want to dual boot, so I said what the heck and started with the System Restore CD's for said iMac. This new drive worked just fine, and I put a 10GB blank hard drive into the computer. I have a broken iMac lying around with nothing wrong save the lack of a hard drive and the CD-ROM drive was shot. I recently stumbled across a new iMac G3 CD ROM Drive.