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Boot from CD
I am trying to boot from an apple supplied CD/DVD “reinstall OSX” disk that shipped with my new CPU.
I tried to boot using the icon on the disk itself.
I tried changing my start-up disk in the pref panel to reflect the CD/DVD.
I tried holding down the C key upond startup.
I tried holding down the option key to show boot-able devices (which it doesn’t show the disk).Everytime it just boots from the internal HD, what am I missing here? Why can’t I restart from this damn disk? I really need to reinstall the OS and start fresh again, any suggestions/comments?
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3 Replies
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Bad Disc?
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Bob Vick sr promo guy @ ch3 wwmt tv, kalamazoo, mi
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Will the disc work in another Mac?
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Bob Vick sr promo guy @ ch3 wwmt tv, kalamazoo, mi
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I just purchased (2) new G5’s… both discs that came with each cpu won’t work. I called Apple & they are sending (2) new disk out so in a few days I’ll hopefully get a fresh batch-maybe both of my disks came from a duplication bum batch. How would we know, most never know until it’s too late. I have a feeling that I am screwed though, I doubt that Apple is going to have issues getting a quality cd product out. I also loaded the bum disk into my other older G5’s & they don’t recognize it either. When I place the old G5’s OSX reload disk in the new G5’s it sees it as a valid boot source but crashes half way through installation. I’m glad I found this out before trying to install TIGER! If I needed to downgrade I would have been seriously hurting.
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