FW: Powerbook G3 (pismo), won't boot YDL 4 cd1

[Colin Ward]

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> From: Colin Ward <cward1 at btconnect.com>
> Date: Wed, 08 Dec 2004 08:25:20 +0000
> To: <yellowdog-newbie at lists.terrasoftsolutions.com>
> Subject: Powerbook G3 (pismo),  won't boot YDL 4 cd1
> 
>> Message: 1
>> Date: Tue, 07 Dec 2004 14:14:49 -0600
>> From: Stone <baruch1 at mac.com>
>> Subject: Powerbook G3 (Pismo), won't boot YDL 4 cd1
>> To: yellowdog-newbie at lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
>> Message-ID: <41B60F39.5000004 at mac.com>
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>> I downloaded the ISOs from a mirror and using Disk Utility dragged over
>> the images and click burn disc. The burning went perfectly and I can see
>> the mounted disk under OS X. I then shut off my Powerbook with the cd 1
>> in the drive, turn it on, hold down c and it boots to OS X. I tried
>> zapping the P-RAM and also reset the nvram in open firmware.
> 
>> Note: this is not the stock CD/DVD module that shipped with the
>> Powebrook. That one is long dead and gone. This is a Toshiba drive, the
>> same identical one used in other Powerbooks, which required absolutely
>> no physical modification or software hacking in order to get it to work.
> 
>> Might anyone have any suggestions?
> 
>> Thank you,
> 
> 
> Sounds like you have a bad disk, even if you get no errors when burning the
> disk it can still be bad.
> The only way to be sure is to check-sum the image before you burn it(in the
> directory where you downloaded the image from, there is a file called
> md5checksum or simler). You can do this from within OSX, if you don't know
> how, do a google for "MD5-check sums"
> Hope this helps
> Colin

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