scroll to bottom... >>> If it booted a Beige G3, it may not have a recent enough OS, or the >>> incorrect Mac OS ROM file, to boot your powerbook. Make a new CD that >>> has >>> at least 9.0.4 and preferably 9.1 just to be safe. >> >> This has happened with a cd that was burned (burnt?) a while ago (it >> has >> 9.0.4 on it I believe) and with a cd that was burned in OS X just >> today. I tried it a few times with no luck. >> >> Just for your info., it's Verbatim media and I used Toast to burn it. >> Also, it saw the CD in the Startup Disk pane as a valid startup >> disk...but when either choosing the CD from the Startup Disk pane or >> holding the "c" key when starting up, it always just boots from my hard >> drive. > > If the computer boots to a commercial CD, then there's not likely > anything > wrong with the PowerBook, but rather it's likely that it's something > wrong > with the CD you're using and/or the way it was burned. > > Since it boots another computer, I'm assuming that you're using decent > media and you're burning it correctly. > > That narrows it down to the system software that's going onto the CD. > where is this system software coming from? What was used to create the > image you're burning? Was it straight off the CD that came with another > computer? Did you use the OS 9 installer to install a system folder onto > the image?
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