Unable to boot from internal harddrive

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Powerbook g4, internal keyboard fried. Using an external mac keyboard. Rebooted with disc - Coriolis CD Maker using iDefrag (http://www.coriolis-systems.com/iDefrag.php). Did a full defrag of internal harddrive. Unable to boot back from internal harddrive/ There are no options to do so.

I would either need a hardware way of restarting from main internal hd or a command while idefrag is working. Unable to eject cd as well. Any ideas?
 
You can eject the CD by turning the computer on, and immediately holding down the left mouse or trackpad button.

You can also boot into open-firmware (command-option-o-f while booting) and type "cd eject" to eject the CD. Then, after the CD ejects, type "reset-all" and the machine will reboot.

Mac OS X and defragmenting do not go well together. OS X almost never needs to be defragmented.

After ejecting the CD using the above procedures, you can see if your internal hard drive shows up as a boot device by holding down the option key as you boot. This should show you a bootable devices menu, where you can select which device to boot from. Heck, you don't even need to eject the CD first to try this -- if this works, then you can boot and eject the CD once Mac OS X finishes booting.
 
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