[DuoList] PB 2400 SCSI Boot

[Ralph Mawyer]

I vaguely remember the 2400 will only boot from a CD-ROM drive with  
the Apple firmware, i.e., an Apple CD drive.  That's why I hung on to  
mine.

See if you can boot from a floppy or other drive and then read the CD  
drive.


On Jan 28, 2008, at 8:18 PM, Noah Wood wrote:

> I have an external SCSI cd-rom drive which the 2400 refuses to boot
> from, I have the drive set to "0" and the terminator and everything.
> I recently wiped the HD clean and want to install I was able to boot
> from the disk tools floppy via the floppy drive, but no luck on the
> CD-ROM.  Any ideas?

Ralph Mawyer, Jr.
San Antonio, Texas

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