iMac Keeps Booting Into Open Firmware

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punkindrublikpunkindrublik
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in Current Mac Hardware edited January 2014
My roomates iMac 450 ( my old one before the G4 800 ) keeps booting into open firmware. He is an absolute newbie and I'm trying to train him. He is running OS X.1.4 and has all the latest updates. When this was my computer it never did this. How can I get it to stop? Thanks for any help!

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    soopadrivesoopadrive Posts: 182member
    I know this works for PowerBooks, but you can always try rebooting the iMac and holding down Command-Option-O-F (letter "o"). This should prevent Open Firmware from starting up everytime.
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    allall Posts: 27member
    Try setting auto-boot to true.

    I think the syntax is.



    setenv auto-boot true
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    punkindrublikpunkindrublik Posts: 5member
    Thanks for the suggestion, how do I set autoboot, is it in the terminal?
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    allall Posts: 27member
    [quote]Originally posted by punkindrublik:

    <strong>Thanks for the suggestion, how do I set autoboot, is it in the terminal?</strong><hr></blockquote>



    No, it's in the OF prompt you get when you get dumped into OF.
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