Install disk doesn't boot

[Andrew]

On Sun, 16 Jan 2005 14:21:38 +0000
Peter Danckwerts <peter at tigerofthestripe.co.uk> wrote:

Isnt it an OldWorld machine? If so, my bet is you'll have to use a bootloader like BootX, quik or miboot.

> Could well be incompatible hardware. I installed YDL 4 onto my laptop 
> without trouble but it doesn't like my desktop G4 one little bit.
> 
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> On 16 Jan 2005, at 14:03, Marcellus Earl wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> >  
> > Another real newbie! I bought YDL 4.0 on cd's and tried to boot the 
> > install disk. Failure. I tried holding down the C key and it didn't 
> > work although it was clear my machine was trying it's best to boot 
> > from it. I tried holding down the option key. Again, no success.
> > The machine I'm working with is a Power Mac G3/300 Tower model, 300 
> > MHz, 20 gig hard drive, 512 MB memory. I tried booting while OS X was 
> > on it. I even uninstalled it and tried to boot with a newly 
> > initialized hard drive. Didn't work.
> >  
> > Do I have a defective disk, or incompatible hardware, or am I just 
> > plain ignorant of the right way to boot the disk? What do you advise?
> >  
> > Marcellus Earl
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