Re: iMac won't boot from AppleCD

[Gunther Furtado <gunzera@pop.com.br>]

Ethan Benson wrote:

>On Sat, Nov 12, 2005 at 09:43:50AM -0200, Gunther Furtado wrote:
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>>Hi,
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>>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.
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>sounds like a bad cd
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Not the case, it works on the ibook!

>>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.
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>the disk doesn't matter for a CD boot.
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>try booting the system while holding down the C key, instead of using
>the yaboot menu.
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I did (just forget to tell you) and the results are the same as choosing 
"c" on the yaboot menu.

thanks again,

Gunther Furtado