[Duo2400] HELP...I'm going nutz trying to fix this 2400!!! Message #4

[Ralph Mawyer]

If you are running the standard OS 9.x load it won't boot from a 
non-Apple CD drive.  You'll need an  Apple CD-drive or the 7.6.1 
universal driver or a hack of the later drivers.



On Nov 9, 2003, at 3:34 PM, Paul Miller wrote:

>   I
> have attempted to boot from a external scsi CDrom that
> has worked well in the past but I'm not having much
> luck.  I wram boot the 2400c while holding down the
> "c" key continually through the boot process.  The
> light on the CDrom blips a couple of times when the
> 2400 starts up, then the happy mac, then the internal
> HD reads and I'm back to the previously loaded 9.0.4.
> Why won't it boot from the CDrom?
> Could this whole thing be some kind of
> software/instruction problem?  I still think isn't a
> matter of bad ram/then not enough ram.  But why is it
> not booting from the CD on command?