YDL 3.0 on B&W G3 - CD won't boot

Dan Burcaw yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
Mon May 5 18:41:01 2003


Any "CD wont boot problems" on New World machines
probably are the result of 700 MB CD-Rs!!

In our internal testing, we found that older iMacs and B&W G3s do NOT
enjoy 700 MB CD-Rs.  This is especially true with regard to CD booting.

On Mon, 2003-05-05 at 18:20, Phil wrote:

> >> YDL 3.0 on B&W G3 - CD won't boot
> >>
> >> I've tried telling Open Firmware to boot from CD with both:
> >>
> >> >boot cd:,\\yaboot
> >>
> >>  >boot cdrom:,\\yaboot
> >>
> >> I also told Open Firmware to boot from device cd: instead of hd:
> >>
> >> Has anyone had a similar issue and or found a resolution or 
> >> workaround??
> >>
> >> On 2.3 I resolved by putting the boot folder from the CD into OS 9's 
> >> System folder and edited yaboot.conf, but I no longer have OS 9 
> >> installed...