Booting from CD

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agallantagallant
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in Genius Bar edited January 2014
I have a 867 Powerbook combo drive. The cd drive works well, plays cd's reads files fine but when i try to boot from it (trying to install 10.3) it just makes a lot of nois shows a flashinf folder with a question mark in it and spits out the CD. I hace tried booting holding the "C" key and with out. it does it ither way. I have also had the same results booting from the hardware test cd. Any ideas?

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  • Reply 1 of 4
    boukmanboukman Posts: 93member
    Does your Powerbook read movie DVDs properly? Is your boot disk a CD or a DVD?
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    agallantagallant Posts: 87member
    THe boot disk is a CD at least i think. as for playing a dvd i have not tried it yet.
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    regreg Posts: 832member
    My 10.3 came as 3 disks, CD's. Disk one has 632.2 MB. It sounds like your pb just doesn't like the CD. On some of the old iMacs we had a problem with them not reading thick disks. Make sure your disk is clean with no scratches. Sometimes a good cleaning will let it mount.



    reg
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  • Reply 4 of 4
    agallantagallant Posts: 87member
    Thanks for your help. I panaced, new toy you know. I cleaned the cd drive and every thing worked fine.
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