Powermac g4 server won't boot from cd

[Scott Truitt]

thanks for your help phil, what i found was the factory had set the 
dvdrom drive to slave. the firmware had a problem with this and now it 
boots from cd no prob. thanx
scott

On Tuesday, April 8, 2003, at 02:23  PM, Phil wrote:

> I had a similar issue with a B&W not seeing the cd.  I tried to tell 
> OF to boot from the cd, but that didn't work.
>
> I ended up putting the contents of yaboot in the system folder in Mac 
> OS 9.  I editing yaboot.conf to read from the hard drive instead of 
> the cd.  Then, in open firmware I did
>
> boot hd:,\\yaboot
>
> I also had to put full cd in the system folder, but hey, it worked. ;^)
>
> Hope that helps.
>
> Phil
>
>
>
> On Tuesday, April 8, 2003, at 02:43 PM, Scott Truitt wrote:
>
>> I have a powermac g4 server 500MHZ, with scsi drives and it wont boot 
>> from the yellowdog 2.3 cd. Has anyone else had this problem and get 
>> around it?
>>
>> thanx scott
>>
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