G3 Desktop - no boot to CD

[Eric Dunbar]

Just as any FYI Smitty, the reason the CD doesn't boot is that the
"Beige" G3 (300 MHz) that Pete has (and "OldWorld" Mac) will not boot
the YDL CD without getting some initial help from a "boot loader" --
in most cases that boot loader is xboot running in Mac OS, but there
are a few people who use an OSS bootloader (which is no where near as
easy to set up and doesn't always play nice with older Open Firmware).

Eric.

On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 10:39:37 -0500, Helen Smith
<bana_asawa at mindspring.com> wrote:
> I have noticed with the Mac I had to use the Memorex CD media that was the
> gold color (650 meg capacity not the 700 meg).  Record them on the slowest
> speed allowed by the burning program.  This holds true with the color series
> of iMac (bondi, indigo, etc) the power Mac (Blue & White, etc).  Only when I
> was using the DVD drive could I use a different media but the Memorex (gold
> color) worked best across all of them.  This would include to the LC series
> forward.
> 
> Smitty
> 
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> Andrew
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> Subject: Re: G3 Desktop - no boot to CD
> 
> On Sat, 29 Jan 2005 21:50:29 -0800
> Pete Lancashire <pete5520 at pdxeng.com> wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > New to Mac but not Linux.
> >
> > I was given a G3 that I can not get to boot to its CDROM