Re: iMac won't boot from AppleCD

[Gunther Furtado <gunzera@pop.com.br>]

Brad Boyer wrote:

> On Sat, Nov 12, 2005 at 08:58:19AM -0200, Gunther Furtado wrote:
>  
>
> > Does it have to do whit those little partitions in the start of the 
> > traditional apple partition map? I do not have anything that couldn't be 
> > lost on this disk so any strategy is acceptable, I need to have dual 
> > boot plus cd boot. Mol isn't capable of booting from cd (#startmol --cd 
> > boot) either.
> >    
>
> If you want to be able to boot OS9 (or anything earlier), you need
> those extra partitions. They are drivers used by the classic MacOS
> to read the filesystems on the drive. It's kind of involved, but if
> you want the details, Apple has it in their old developer docs online.
> The easiest thing is most likely going to be starting over from
> scratch with the blank hard drive and install OS9 first. If you
> can't get the OS9 CD to boot with your hard drive attached, you
> may need to erase the partition map completely so that it won't
> try to load anything from it.
>
> 	Brad Boyer
> 	flar@allandria.com
>
>
>  
If I could use OS9 from within mol that would be just as fine! And the 
question is: do OS9 using mol still needs those extra partitions?

thanks,

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Gunther Furtado
Brasil