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

[Phil]

Thanks Dan.  Did a 650MB disk resolve the issue when testing?


On Monday, May 5, 2003, at 08:35 PM, Dan Burcaw wrote:

>
> 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...
>
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