Trouble booting 8.1/8.2 CD on iBook G4

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satori9

Note that a Debian 5.x PPC disc boots fine in this optical drive.

iBook G4, 1.2 GHz, 1.25 GB memory.

I've tried all three 8.2 CD images and the "boot1" 8.1 CD image. I get to the point of typing "> mac-boot" and it goes just a little further, then blinks an alternating question mark and Finder logo in the center of the screen. Once in a while the optical drive will spin up, then it goes quiet again. I never get to the meat of the installer.

I've tried resetting PRAM.

Ideas?
 
sossego said:
You need to set the path
Code: 
>setenv boot-device cd
>mac-boot
Click to expand...

The symptom this way is the same.

sossego said:
You need to set the path
Code: 
> boot cd:,\boot\loader
Click to expand...

This results in
Code: 
Can't allocate space for $LOAD buffer (load_base)

I may have to try network boot, but that puts a damper on having an in-the-field recovery/repair CD.
 
Okay.
Have you tried a 9-0 CURRENT image?
How are you burning it?
Is the Option menu available? Remember this one. If Debian can be installed, allocate about 1/2 of the disk space. Reference here http://www.daemonforums.org/showthread.php?t=5697 for a skeleton setup.


Go back through Grehan's howto on the link I posted.

I also use
Code: 
setenv auto-boot? false
.

It's a good way to try booting the CD through the command line in OF.(You can keep trying until it boots.)
 
No matter what I've attempted, nothing newer than 7.2 will boot and 7.2 won't use the built-in keyboard.
 
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