hi, i have a 2000 laptop with a lot of upgraded parts including g4 and a 2003 combo drive.
occasionally, sometimes more frequently i have trouble related to the combo drive, either linux hangs (not always obvious it is sometime "loading modules" unspecifically; or mac os does not see the cd/dvd at all like you said, or the buttons of holding down option key stalls. in most cases a restart will reset it to work. usually this means a warm restart, holding down the ctrl command/apple and power keys all at once (sometimes a simple restart in macos using the menu will either hang or tell me to use the power key, but in the latter case i actually do have to use the "three finger salute". probably others have suggestions i am just relaying my experience. brian --- Keywan Najafi Tonekaboni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > i have an ibook G4 12" (june05) with a combo-drive. > everything was fine > until I had hardware problems and brought it to an > apple store to repair > it. they changed the LogicBoard and I test my > GNU/Linux system and > everything was fine. I burned CDs and watch DVDs. > After some weeks I > want to usea CD-Rom in MacOS X, but OS X didn't > recognized the medium > and also not the drive. "System Profiler" just have > the harddisc in the > ATA-tree. I went with my iBook to the store and > they tried a lot of > stuff, but couldn't fix the problem and call > Linux/Yaboot responsible. > > >From the boot menu I can't boot from cdrom. They > tried to boot from > OpenFirmware and tried a lot of magic key combos and > also boot macosx > from an external harddisc which also didn't > recognize the drive. > > I don't care about MacOS, but I am afraid about > couldn't boot from > CD-ROM and have not the ability to fix my system in > worst case. > > Has anybody ideas, why I couldn't boot from > CDROM/DVD? > > Thanks for you help and sorry to bother this list. > > Regards, > > Keywan > > > -- > Keywan Najafi Tonekaboni > http://www.prometoys.net > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/# apt-get --purge remove dominion > After unpacking world will be freed. > You are about to do something potentially beneficial > To continue type in the phrase 'Yes, do as We say!' > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
