Have you booted your B&W off this particular CD in the past? The system disk that came with the B&W had 8.5.1 on it. anything earlier than that probably won't boot a B&W.
On Monday, January 20, 2003, at 05:16 AM, Alexander Cohen wrote: > I have the latest OSX installed on my computer, it's been there for > about a month. Now i want to install OS8.5 onto another partiton, but i > can't for the life of me get my computer to boot off the OS8.5 install > CD. I've tried everything. Zapping the pram, removing all hard drives > and booting from the CD, removing the battery for while, putting it > back and booting from CD. Is there any reason i should not be able to > boot off an install CD? What can make this happen? I tried putting the > CD in and switching the startup disk to it, but it just reverts back. I > even copied all of the install cd contents to an empty partition and > tried to boot off that partiton, but the computer always switches back > to the OSX partiton to boot off of. I know the install CD is good and > bootable, i can use it to boot in another mac. Please help!!!!! > > The computer is a blue and white G3. -- G-List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- We have Apple Refurbished Monitors in stock! | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-List list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Mac? Free email & more at Applelinks! http://www.applelinks.com
