White iBook 700Mhz installation problem.

[Michael Kalus]

On Mon, 2003-09-01 at 12:29, George H. Yeager wrote:

> I did not have this problem (white iBook 800MHz), although it took me a 
> while to figure out that F12 was the release button.  Also, my OS X 
> partition is working fine.
> 

Actually the problem in OSX is that it seems to boot fine in safe mode
but hangs itself somewhere along the bootup if you do the full boot. I
was unable to find out why this is happening and all the Apple Gurus I
talked to didn't had an idea either.

What I do know though is that something is wrong with the CDROM drive,
the eject only works when it feels like it and I am going to send a
nasty letter to Apple tomorrow.


> Have you tried the "paper clip" hole to release the CD door (upper right 
> hand corner of the door on mine)?  Maybe it will work after the install 
> is colmplete?

Yes, I tried that, but if you do it the system doesn't notice that the CD has been ejected and he does not re-read the disc so an install wouldn't be possible.

I found a "workaround" though, I had to put the notebook on it's side and then it ejected fine, it seems to me something is severely screwed up with the CDROM drive and I hope Apple is willing to fix it, there were quite some problems with this book in the past year.

Thanks for the tips though :)

Michael