On Nov 17, 2003, at 02:42 am, Vaughan Bromfield wrote:
As far as being able to hold down the "C" key to boot from the CR-ROM, afaik it's only built into those machines that came with an internal CD-ROM (or for which it was an option). And from memory that'd be the Macintosh IIvx and later.
Not true - any machine that was around when bootable SCSI CD-ROM drives were avaiable should support it - certainly the LCII, III and 475 all do, as does the Mac Classic and most 68k Powerbooks.
So to conclude... AFAIK a Mac IIfx can use a CD-ROM and boot from it, but it won't recognise the "C" key at startup.
My thought would be try 'C' if that fails o work then use Cmd-Opt-Shft-Del instead - that works on practically any SCSI Mac with only 1 bootable hard disk (if you have 2 it uses the other boot partition instead). If neither work make sure your CD drive is working 100% and is bootable, and also ensure the CD you are booting from is working.
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