[X-Newbies] Can't boot from CD

[Michael Winter]

On Oct 25, 2006, at 10:29 AM, Kevin Riley wrote:

> I am having a problem with my macbook in that I cannot seem to boot  
> from CD anymore…I insert the CD, hold down C and OSX boots up. If I  
> hold down the alt key to get the boot selection screen with a CD in  
> the drive I just get the OSX and Windows partitions to boot from.  
> If I have a CD in and select the startup disk utility, again, I  
> just get the two partitions OSX and Windows…

It appears your CD is not being recognized as being able to boot your  
computer. A couple possibilities:

The CD is damaged. Does it show up in the Finder when inserted?

The OS on the CD is too old to boot your computer. Don't Macbooks  
come with a boot DVD? I don't know that any of the OS's that came on  
CD are current enough to run a Macbook. Are you using a disk that  
came with the Macbook?

-Mike