on 02.05.2004 22:02, JennaSaige Lefae at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > What's there to be confused about? > I explained to you that I can't boot from any kind of > CD whatsoever. > I've explained that it's NOT my CDs. What part of 'my > computer hangs when I boot from CDs' did you NOT > understand?!? > > I TOLD you it was an Apple drive to begin with. > I'll just send the drive back to the person I got it > from, and get another one or something. > So much for help..
Jenna, Actually, what you told us is that you are trying to boot from _copies_ of system disks. That is something very different from attempting to boot from a known bootable CD-ROM. First of all, a device needs a driver for the OS to attach and mount it. If you are imaging from a hard disk, then it shall be hard disk drivers that are written to the driver partitions and a hard disk partition map that is written to the CD-R, either of which is a recipe for failure. If you are imaging from a CD-ROM, then care must be taken to include those extra partitions by doing a device copy, and not merely a volume copy. Secondly, CD-ROM is, by definition, read-only; I suspect that your hard disk is read-write, and the OS as installed on that hard disk expects to be able to write to the boot volume at start up. This is rather difficult for a read-only disk. Special attention to this issue needs to be given when building a volume that is bootable from a read-only disk. Hoping this adds a little light to your heat. -- Paul F. Henegan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- SuperMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | Service & Replacement Parts [EMAIL PROTECTED] | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> SuperMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/supermacs/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/supermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
