Hi all, after some help here.

It has been a while since I had boot camp on my iMac. So tonight I thought that I would install it back on the iMac to revisit some of the games that I have.

So I go thru the installer and it has a hick up, (the partition space that was available was not what I selected on the boot camp partition setup.)

So I quit out of the setup to check the disk and hold down the option key to select to boot into OSX as the windows XP disc is still in the drive.

Nada, Nothing, just a grey screen of death. I cannot get any boot options and if I turn it off then on and leave it to see where it boots to, I still get nothing.


Is there anyway out of this mess. It serves me right for using Boot Camp.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.


Crackers

Ok now I managed to get the disc out but still no boot up. Even when putting in the OSX disc. Cannot even select them by holding down the option key?


Any Ideas?

Brief bit of searching around see's that I am totally screwed.

F&(*^(^% typical. Boot Camp Crap.

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Hi all again,

I am after some further help, I managed to get it to boot to a firewire drive after 24hr of trying.

Now not being to technical I formated the Firewire drive and then copied the original Leopard disk to it using "Disk Utility" is this correct to make a bootable drive?

The only reason I ask is that now the iMac has seen the FW drive it is just sitting there with the apple logo and spinning its little counter for about 10 minutes now.

Any help greatly appreciated.

Hey ... the correct way to do it is to

• boot holding the C key so that the computer starts from the Leopard DVD.
• Then ask the Installer to install onto the FireWire drive. (choose "clean install" - it will erase the drive first.)

Hope that helps

Thanks I will try it,

See if it works......

sounds like you partially put windows on your osx partition