Powerbook won't boot cd

[Felix Jodoin]

Great thanks!
I'm burning it at 1X, I'll let everyone knows if that works.
-Felix

On Nov 21, 2004, at 5:05 PM, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote:

> Felix Jodoin wrote:
> -- Start of PGP signed section.
>> Hi,
>> I just got the YDL 4 isos off the torrent and burned them, but on my
>> Powerbook Pismo it doesn't want to boot. Well, in detail, the drive
>> takes about 15 seconds for the disc to mount (it reads CDs/DVDs) and 
>> if
>> you hold down the cd key the gray (with all the little marks) screen
>> appears as it normally does, but the disc doesn't spin up in time and
>> it passes through to mac os x. I did not have this problem with the
>> ordered version of 3.0, but I don't think It's my media.
>>
>> Does anyone have any suggestions (or how to get Open firmware to boot
>> off a cd by force) or solutions?
>> Thanks in advace,
>
> I've always had lots of problems booting off of burnt CD's with my 
> pismo.
> The best results I've had were burning them using a DVD burner at DVD
> speed 1x (CD 4x).
>
> For some reason MacOS CDs (8,5, 9.1) were ok, but Linux and UNIX 
> (MacOS X)
> failed.
>
> Try burning them at the lowest possible speed your burner will go.
>
> A good rule of thumb is never burn anything faster than the drive you
> want to read it on.
>
> Geoff.
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