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>Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 06:45:35 -0700
>Subject: Re: Emergency Start Up Disk
>From: jrclark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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>Frank & Susan Malinowski9/20/01 6:18 [EMAIL PROTECTED][wrote]
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>> I want to burn an emergency startup CD including OS 9X (probably 9.1). DFA,
>> Disk Warrior and Norton. My problem is that my SM will not boot from the
>> Disk Warrior or Norton CD. I think it has something to do with the CD
>> drivers as I can boot from the original SM disk. Do I use the system from
>> the Norton CD, the DW CD? I have the original 8X IDE CD and a SCSI Yamaha
>> CDRW. How do I make a bootable emergency startup disk? Do I use Toast or
>> DiscBurner?
>> Right now I am covered by having partitions with systems and utilities on
>> each but I just think its a good idea to have a bootable CD. If this is too
>> much trouble, is it easier to set up an emergency Jaz disk? I can dedicate
>> a disk for that purpose if necessary.
>> System info: SM 4000MT w/G3, 160 MB RAM, OS 9.1, ATI card
>>
>>
>If it were me i would be more concerned about not being able to boot
>from Norton and Disk Warrior.
>What versions are they ?
>Can you boot from OS cd ?
>I assume you are running 9.1 ?
>Your trying to start using C key, correct ?
>I don't think you will ever boot from the Yamaha, i cannot.
>Those Cds provide their own driver.
>
>Try zapping the pram.
>Press the CUDA switch for at least 10 sec.
>Zap Pram again.
Just to follow up, I tried zapping the PRAM (with Tech Tool), haven't tried
the CUDA switch, may have to. But the situation is as strange as it sounds
and the tech detectives may have a clue, the SM will start up in OS 7.6
from the original SM CD in the original IDE drive. It will not boot up from
the Disk Warrior, Norton System Works or another emergency startup CD that
works on a Powerbook G4Ti. Does not matter which CD I use, the original SM
IDE 8X CD or the SCSI Yamaha CDRW and it does not matter whether I hold the
C key or even select the disk in the Startup Disk Control Panel.
So I am guessing that it is a driver on the CD that is needed which is not
on the DW or Norton CD. It could also be a misfunctioning CD player in that
I often put in a CD and get a message that it cannot read it, do I want to
initialize it? but when reinserted it usually works fine.
Still looking for some insight.
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