Stock 7500 won't boot 3.0

[Brian Winter]

	On an OldWorld machine (which is what a PM7500 is) you must first install 
BootX in order to boot YDL.  OldWorld machines can't boot YDL off the cd 
initially.
	The installation guide ( http://www.yellowdoglinux.com/support/installation/ 
) gives specific instructions on how to do this.

- Brian

On Tuesday 14 October 2003 08:10 am, Lee Dunbar wrote:
> Stock Power Macintosh 7500/100: Original CPU (601, 100 MHz), 288 megs ram
> (Original 32 megs + 2 @ OWC 128 meg), 1.2 Gig Quantum + added 1.0 Gig
> Seagate, Original Apple 600i CDROM drive, no added cards (no IDE, no added
> graphics/video cards), no modem. Apple 12" RGB monitor.
>
> I downloaded YDL3.0 about 2 days after it was announced, saved to a
> Windows98SE PC. After downloading the ISOs, I verified the md5sums were
> matching. I burned the CDs at 32x on to 48x CDR media with Nero 5.5.7.1, no
> errors were reported during the burn. The recorder is new, having burned <
> 20 CDR/CDRWs thus far.
>
> I placed the burned YDL 3.0 CDR into the Apple 600i CDROM reader of my
> PowerMac 7500. I shutdown the Mac, waited 5 seconds, powered the mac up,
> and immediately after hearing the chimes of Macintosh happiness, but before
> the grey screen pops on, I pressed and held the "c" key, to boot from
> CDROM. I heard the CDROM drive do a head seek, but then the system boots
> from the hard disk (MacOS 8.1).
>
> The YDL CD is fine after the Mac boots from the hard disk - I can see
> folders including a folder which looks like a system folder, I see files, I
> can open the readme file which launches my OS 8.1 Simpletext, etc.
>
> I have tried different key combinations: Command-c, command-shift-c,
> command-option-control-c, nothing will boot the YDL CD.
>
> I ejected the YDL CD, inserted the MacOS 8.1 installation CD, and rebooted
> the Mac from the 8.1 CD. In order to get the mac to boot from the 8.1
> install CD, I press the single "c" key.
>
> Today, I returned to the YDL site, and see that YDL is now 3.0.1.
>
> Any chance that my Mac will ever use YDL?
>
>
>
> -- Six of a dozen, half of one or the other...
>
>
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