Any mac experts on here

[scott-b]

Hi all. Looking for a bit of help if anyone knows anbout ibooks.

I recently bought a second hand G4 ibook and decided to reinstall osx.
I put in disc 1 and selected to install OSX and all components, the machine restarted and seemed to boot from the cd.
Now all I have is a black screen with the cursor stuck in the middle.
Cant even eject the disk. Been like that for 10 mins. Is this normal or have I killed it. :S

 

[Schweppy]

Think it sounds like you killed it mate. Maybe wait a bit longer though. Otherwise reboot it and try again. Let us know what happens.

 

[scott-b]

Bugger. I have tried to restart it, it switches off but cause I can't eject the disk I just get back to where I am now!!

 

[Rich]

Should be able to eject the disc with a paperclip.

 

[Schweppy]

Hold the mouse button on bootup should eject it also.

 

[martynh]

Are you holding C when booting? Think this will make it boot from CD?