check the drive connections of course. if the drive is functioning, a really brute force way to force a cd startup is to unplug the scsi connector from the hard drive, this forces the apple to look for another bootable disk starting at id 6 and going down. once the cd is booted, you can reconnect the data cable on the hard drive. if won't show up on the desktop until it's mounted, but your formatting software should do that. just leave the power cable connected at all times. i've done this once or twice, despite not being in the spec virtually all scsi drives support live connection and disconnect of the data cable, provided the power cable is at least connected to provide in independent ground. also check the cd for fingerprints etc., i've found some drives very sensitive to finger prints on the media.
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