Powerbook and boot from CD problem

Jason Warm yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
Mon May 17 13:16:01 2004


That combinations does not seem to do anything.  I hold down Control, 
Apple, O (as in Orange) and F and it boots like normal.  I do not get a 
prompt of any kind.

Jason
On May 17, 2004, at 2:45 PM, Norberto Quintanar wrote:

>
> booting from within Open Firmware - ctrl-apple-O-F and see if this
> helps.
>
>
> At the OF prompt just type: boot cd:,\\:tbxi
>
>
>
> --- Jason Warm <jwarm@miasys.com> wrote:
>> I am trying to install YDL from downloaded iso files.  I have tried
>>
>> burning the CD on both Mac and PC and the result is the same.  When
>> I
>> boot into OS 9, the CD mounts fine and I am able to read it, but
>> when I
>> hold down "C" to try to boot off the CD-ROM it fails everytime and
>> simply boots from the HD.  It does seem like it starts to read the
>> CD,
>> but simply continues on to boot off the hard drive.
>>
>> Jason
>>
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