Well, my mac was acting up so I put in the Mac Disk 1 install cd to try and repair or see what was the problem because my Disk Utility wasn't working on my other user account on this mac. I had a white screen for about ever did the alt-cmd-p-r and still a white screen, so I held option and nothing worked same with holding c while the disk was in. left it unplugged for about 30 mins and it decided to work(boot up past white screen) Well now Im trying to get my Mac Disk out of the cd thing on the side and nothing works.

These are the things I've tried.

Eject on keyboard
alt+eject
iTunes eject
Disk Utility to eject but it was telling me there was no cd in to eject.

So Im stuck what to do fairly new to Mac but I have an Intel Mac 2.8Ghz if that's any help.

Thanks,
John

Last login: Thu Feb 5 20:20:28 on ttys000
john-*******-imac:~ jp$ cd /dev/
john-*******-imac:dev jp$ ls -l disk*
brw-r----- 1 root operator 14, 0 Feb 5 19:59 disk0
brw-r----- 1 root operator 14, 1 Feb 5 19:59 disk0s1
brw-r----- 1 root operator 14, 2 Feb 5 19:59 disk0s2
john-*******-imac:dev jp$ hdiutil eject disk0
hdiutil: couldn't unmount "disk0" - Resource busy
john-*******-imac:dev jp$ hdiutil eject disk0s1
hdiutil: couldn't unmount "disk0" - Resource busy
john-*******-imac:dev jp$ hdiutil eject disk0s2
hdiutil: couldn't unmount "disk0" - Resource busy
john-*******-imac:dev jp$ hdiutil eject disk1
hdiutil: eject failed - No such file or directory
john-*******-imac:dev jp$ hdiutil eject disk2
hdiutil: eject failed - No such file or directory


Didn't work either

Seems like the drive is somehow still busy, maybe because of some application/process that needs a force quit?

I would, as a last resort, startup in single user mode and eject it (/usr/bin/drutil eject) from there. Just give it a go

p.s. You can also use: drutil tray open/close

i had a similar problem on an imac i was fixing for a friend, i ended opening the drive to retrieve the disc out. it was pretty simple to do.

Try restarting while holding down your mouse button. If you have a 2 button mouse, it would be the left click. This seems to work for me.