On Oct 16, 2008, at 6:59 PM, Simon Royal wrote: > My Intel iMac came with a set of grey discs. According to the > documentation if you hold the Option key while in an internal or > Apple specified external firewire drive it will show two boot > options from the one disc. > > On non Apple firewire drives and USB drive it will show only the > installer boot and not the AHT boot. > > I found this to be true.
I think this is something wrong with your setup, after all, it's got (had) a multitude of other issues, but I'll drag out an external HD and try to boot one of my discs and report back later. I noticed that Apple released an update today that might have relevance to this issue. It is called "Apple Migration and DVD/CD Sharing Update - 1.0" and one aspect of it is DVD/CD Sharing. This was created for the MacBook Air which comes without an optical drive. The idea is to be able to share the optical drive on another Mac. If this includes booting, which I think it must, and if it will work on other Mac models (unknown to me, but even if not, a patch should be simple), then this would be an alternate method to boot a Mac with a broken optical drive. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
