Re: iMac won't boot from AppleCD

[Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>]

On Sat, Nov 12, 2005 at 09:43:50AM -0200, Gunther Furtado wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I am new to the list and this is my firs post. I did a google search 
> ("cd won't boot site:lists.penguinppc.org/yaboot-users/2005/") and I 
> found out the I have the opposite problem: I can't boot in MacOS. I am 
> installing/fine tunning a newer and bigger HD to my iMac 333MHz. I have 
> successfully managed to install debian (root) in /dev/hda3 and the 
> bootstrap partition is /dev/hda2. I have successfully configured yaboot 
> to boot from various linux Live-CDs such as knoppix's and ubuntu's. But 
> I cannot boot from apple's original iMac Install (MacOS 9) CD. As I 
> press "c" on the initial yaboot screen the cd-drive produces some noises 
> (as if it is trying to read the CD) the screen goes to the old apple 
> grayish color and then... nothing.

sounds like a bad cd

> Does it have to do whit those little partitions in the start of the 
> traditional apple partition map? I do not have anything that couldn't be 
> lost on this disk so any strategy is acceptable, I need to have dual 
> boot plus cd boot. Mol isn't capable of booting from cd (#startmol --cd 
> boot) either.

the disk doesn't matter for a CD boot.

try booting the system while holding down the C key, instead of using
the yaboot menu.

> Before this experience I had everything working very well with the 
> original 6GB-HD (it is still here).
> 
> Thank you,
> 
> Gunther Furtado
> 
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