Posted on 2/2/10.
I installed 10.3 on my iMac G4 and it had 10.2 on it. It installed fine but after it got done I was did up dates on it. I was re starting it and now all it does is stay on the white screen with the apple logo with the loading circle. Now I can’t get the cd tray out to put in the OS cd to re do it. I don’t have anything on it. I just want to get it to work again.
– Gary McNeil
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Try holding down the eject button while starting up. You may just need to take it into a repair shop.
I mean I know how to work on it but I just don’t know whats wrong. I mean what could it be. I tried holding down the eject key on startup but nothing happened.
I don’t know. You need to get that drive open so you can boot with something else. A shop would know how, or could try booting from an external drive.
I found that if you go into the open firmware by holding the command option o f down after you here the system chime and let off when the firmware come up. Then you type in eject cd then just hit return.
Excellent! Thanks for reporting back on this. I’m sure others will find this useful too.