[SM] Boot disk bugaboo

[Bob Robeson]

I burned a boot disk on my Pioneer burner today for someone and I 
thought I would just test it, for the sake of thoroughness, and it 
wouldn't boot.  I tested the disk I made the copy from, the one I 
regularly boot from to do my system maintenance and it wouldn't boot 
either.  None of the disks I use to boot from would boot.  Holding down 
the C key, the disks would spin up in the drives but that irritating, 
blinking question mark would never turn into the happy mac face.  I 
tried restarts and cold starts from both of my CD drives.

A few days ago I took out my original Mashita CD drive and replaced it 
with the Pioneer DVR 106.  I also have in my case a Yamaha burner that 
won't burn but reads fine at 16 speed.  I thought that because it is 
faster than the Mashita I would leave it in the box instead of the Yamaha.

Many moons ago on this list we passed around a resedit recipe for 
hacking the Apple CD/DVD Driver.  I remember going through the motions 
and converting a copy for myself, which I have temporarily misplaced. 
Did that hacked driver have something to do with forcing install of 
OSX?  Or was it to be able to boot on the S900 from drives other than 
the Mashita?

Could someone enlighten me on this, please?  If I need that hacked 
driver, I will start digging through my archives or someone might email 
it to me.  Or, maybe the driver is not the issue with making boot disks. 
Maybe I need to put the Mashita back instead of the Yamaha, just so I 
can boot.  Or maybe it is something else that remains out of my awareness.

I will wait here, puzzling and scratching my bald head, for a reply.

Much thanks,
Bob Robeson
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