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Kevin Callahan | 1 Sep 2005 18:47
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Re: ejecting a disc from PB


On Sep 1, 2005, at 12:47 AM, Matt Johnston wrote:


On 1 Sep 2005, at 00:08, Kevin Callahan wrote:

i was just sent a PB with no system on it (selling to a student) ..
i inserted the restore disc and the machine wouldn't boot from the disc via holding the C key down ..
instead, I just get the blinking mac folder

Optical drive banjaxed?

Was that the problem?

Does it boot over firewire? Keep trying the mouse-down thing to eject the CD as it does the same thing as "eject cd" in OF.


i tried several discs --- the restore and the two os discs that came with the machine --
the os disc brought up the gray boot panel, but then froze - with a bunch of streaky lines across the screen

resorted to my Tiger discs which allowed me to start the install process , but then it couldn't find a destination volume

hooked the PB up to my G5 and started up in target mode --
the drive showed up but I got a panel saying I needed to initialize the disk 

did that and installed Tiger from the DVD 

wondering why the install discs didn't tell me I needed to initialize the drive ?

and what was that with the frozen display with static lines blasting across ?





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